By Haruna Gimba
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige will join the Ministers for Health, Professor Isaac Adewole and Dr. Osagie Ehanire in resolving and finding a permanent solution to the crisis rocking the health sector.
Senator Ngige will lead the committee set up by the Federal Government to help resolve crisis in the health sector, a press statement issued to newsmen in Abuja said.
Other members of the Federal Government negotiating team, included Chairman of the National Income, Salaries and Wages Commission, Chief Richard Egbule and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment Dr. Clement Iloh.
Ngige also sets up two committees to look into the circular on salary adjustments and the payment of the consolidated health salary structure skipping arrears.
“There was an overriding need for social dialogue for industrial peace, one committee is to look into the issue of JOHESU demands to enable them get reasonable wages.
“The other committee is to look at the skipping because members of the Health sector Unions, Nurses and Midwives Association and Laboratory Association want to stop a particular grade level,” he said.
The labour minister said that since the Nigerian Medical Association has also made a joint position on skipping, there was need to harmonise the position of collective bargaining, bearing in mind the extant economic downturn in the country.
