Wednesday 13 June 2012

GOOD NEWS!! CALABAR STATE LOOKING TO IMPLEMENT SALARY INCREASES FOR IT'S TEACHERS

Special Adviser to the Cross River State Governor on Labour Matters, Sam Mbang Oju, has said that the 12 percent salary increase promised teachers in the state will soon be implemented just as the N17 million arrears of the weigh-in allowance owed members of the Radio, Television and Theatre Workers Union (RATTAWU) and the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the state will be paid soon. Speaking in Calabar yesterday, Oju urged workers and Labour leaders in the state to embark on training and retraining sessions to ensure an effective workforce. He further said that the new low tax regime promised by Governor Liyel Imoke will be fast tracked to provide succour and make the take-home-pay package a living wage.According to him, the dilapidated structure currently housing the NLC secretariat will be renovated to afford the body a conducive environment to co-ordinate the activities of its affiliates.

Culled from The Nigerian Daily Trust Newpaper

...AND EVEN MORE GHOST WORKERS DISCOVERED IN BAUCHI - 5,000!!

The shocking revelation of how much money we as a country are losing because of the payment of non existent employees within our collective FG labour force is still being uncovered as seen in the below excerpt culled from The Nigerian Daily Trust Newspaper

Bauchi state Local Government Service Commission has uncovered the existence of over 5000 ghost workers across the 20 local government councils of the state. The Chairman Local Government Service Commission, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa stated this today while speaking with newsmen in Bauchi. He said the discovery was made by the commission after conducting a screening exercise across the local councils in the state. Musa said part of the revelations of the committee that went round the 20 local government councils in the state was the existence of many staffs that are supposed to have retired since but were still using false ages to remain in service.

AWESOME POINT TO REMEMBER AS AN SME - ETHICS CAN MAKE OR BREAK YOUR BUSINESS

Regarding setting up best practise systems and policies in your offices or even as an individual working in an office, the best advice I ever received is ethics trickles down from leadership. If leadership isn't ethical, workers will not be either. This doesn't matter whether you are an SME employing 1 person or on your way to becoming a large enterprise operating across Nigeria, Africa, and even the world.

Ethics is becoming more and more important with social media and shrinking global borders making it almost impossible for companies not to be transparent and accountable for their actions, systems, and policies. Crafting a sustainable ethical policy in your company is not as hard as you think and for small business owners, it is better to set up on earlier on that is sustainable and implementable in order to ensure you know you are accountable and ultimately responsible for the success or failure of your business.

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KEBBI LOSES N153 MILLION MONTHLY TO GHOST WORKERS

The Kebbi State government loses a whooping N153 million monthly to 2,800 workers on its payroll, an investigation has found. This was contained in a report by the committee set up by the state government last month on salaries and pensions in the state, which was submitted to the state Governor, Saidu Dakingari, at the Government House, Birnin Kebbi, yesterday. Chairman of the committee, Senator Faruk Bello Bunza who presented the report noted that the revelations were quiet alarming, and added that they were discovered from the data obtained from the pay roll and staff list of ministries, boards and parastatals in the state civil service. Bunza also lamented that the system was full of irregularities and illegalities whereby some retirees were found to be collecting both salary and their pensions, while some were dead but their names still appeared on the pay roll .

Other shocking revelations included fictitious entry of names as well as duplication of names just as a lot of discoveries were also made when the committee undertook the physical payment of pensioners for the month of May.

Culled From The Leadership Newspaper

IS YOUR BUSINESS NOT GROWING? THEN PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE

Over the years, I have met a lot of entrepreneurs who have been frustrated by low profits, lack of growth, or the stress of the never-ending demands. Many struggle with all three. While every business is different, there are common denominators. In fact, I believe there are 10. The tricky part is that failing to have a handle on just one of these areas can result in mediocre performance, a stressful existence, or ultimate and intimate failure. That is one reason the failure rate for small businesses is so high (here are some others).
This is the checklist I review when I’m not satisfied with my company’s performance.

read more at:

http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/how-to-diagnose-whats-wrong-with-your-business/?ref=humanresources

UPDATE - DRAMA SURROUNDING THE SACKING OF 3,000 WORKERS IN OYO STATE

Ibadan — The Oyo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has condemned Oyo State Government for sacking 3,000 of its workers. Mr. Dotun Oyelade, spokesman of PDP Synergy League, said in a statement in Ibadan, yesterday, that the sack "is the fulfilment of a mind-set primed at reducing the workforce by all means." "The sack is not only premeditated but the first step in a long-drawn strategy to prune down the civil service to a manageable level as a result of the deadlock surrounding the minimum wage." ACN's spokesman, Mr Dauda Kolawole, however, described as shameful PDP's defence of workers that the past administration had prepared for sack due to certificate forgery, age falsification and contravention of service rules.

Culled The Nigerian Vanguard Newspaper