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Former Presidential Aide, Sen. Ita Enang has called connected the Federal Government to resistance the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) to tribunal for contempt for demanding outgo of unpaid salaries among different demands.
Enang, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), made this known successful an interrogation connected Wednesday successful Abuja.
He said that ASUU’s request was successful contravention of a tribunal bid obtained successful 2023, which stated that the national was not entitled to salaries portion connected strike.
It would beryllium recalled that ASUU had proceeded connected onslaught connected Oct. 13 to property location for immoderate of its demands connected statement reached with the national authorities with regards to unit payment including backing and autonomy of the universities.
Enang said: “They are going connected onslaught to compel national authorities to disobey tribunal order.
“If you privation to spell connected strike, you person to hold that nether the law, which is existing, which governs you that you person to forfeit your salaries for the period.
“In the US and successful the UK, determination is simply a Strike Fund, the wealth that the national pays members from during onslaught due to the fact that astatine specified periods they are not entitled to salaries from their employers.
“My proposal to ASUU is to telephone disconnected the onslaught and spell backmost to enactment portion they proceed with negotiations with the Federal Government.
“The mediate crushed is for the national authorities and ASUU to cognize that the aforesaid work that the national authorities owes to it arsenic a commercialized national and employees, is the aforesaid work that the national authorities owes to the students.
“The guiltless students whose world calendar and world beingness person been truncated and prejudiced.
“So, the world unit national should cognize that those who privation to spell connected onslaught should beryllium prepared to suffer their wage according to instrumentality and they should work the judgment.
“Particularly paragraph 2 successful that judgement due to the fact that successful that judgement 1 of the things we claimed successful that judgement was that the play that the workers were connected onslaught should not beryllium counted”.
According to Enang, each the issues raised by ASUU person been passionately addressed by the Ministry of Education and the national government, wondering what ASUU was looking for successful ordering caller strike, insisting that the onslaught represent contempt of Court.
The erstwhile lawmaker made notation to the applicable sections of the International Labour Organisation, which supported the deficiency of salaries for workers who embarked connected strike.
He insisted that the “no work, nary pay” directive of the Federal Government was successful tandem with home and planetary Labour Laws.
Enang said paying striking workers magnitude to contempt of Court by the Federal Government, stressing that the Federal Government indispensable not beryllium seen to beryllium successful contempt of Court similar the striking ASUU.
He said: “The question we asked the tribunal is to find connected leafage 2 of the judgement was to construe the provisions of Section 43 of the Trade Dispute Act, Capt. 8, Laws of the Federation.
“It is titled Special Provisions with Respect to Payment of Wages During Strikes and Lockouts, specifically dealing with the rights of employers and employees and workers during the play of immoderate onslaught oregon lockout”.
“I person listened to the connection by Dr Alausa, the Minister of Education, saying that the Vice-Chancellors should not wage the salaries and that they should honour the argumentation of nary work, nary pay.
“I privation to impulse the Minister that helium doesn’t request to bash that, but should alternatively complaint ASUU for contempt of Court,” helium maintained.(NAN)
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