The Federal Government of Nigeria is mulling a single salary scale that will be performance-based for workers in ministries, departments, and agencies, the Head of Civil Service (HoCS) of the Federation, Folashade Yemi-Esan, has said.
The HoCS disclosed this during a virtual interactive session with a cross-section of civil servants across various MDAs.
According to her, the federal government also plans to ensure that civil servants enjoyed “better days,” with the removal of the subsidy on petrol.
A statement from the HoCS office, signed by the Director of Press, Muhammed Ahmed, and sighted by ARMADANEWS read partly, “Dr Yemi-Esan, CFR, highlighted government’s plans to improve the welfare of workers worsened by the present excruciating economic conditions, such as the introduction of a single salary scale for workers in ministries, extra-ministerial departments, and agencies, which she said will be tied to productivity not profession; allowances, palliatives, and subsidised transportation to cushion the effects, in the next few weeks.
She further noted the issue of promotion arrears and the timely release of letters of promotion to avoid accumulated years of promotion allowance.
According to her, yearly promotion processes should start and end within the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning. She also urged MDAs to submit their requests for promotion arrears on time, to enable the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation to forward the same.
“Reiterating one of the objectives of the interactive session, which is to get feedback from the civil servants on the ongoing transformation of the service, Dr Yemi-Esan also highlighted a number of impactful initiatives as captured under the Federal Civil Service Strategy and Implementation Plan 2021- 2025 (FCSSIP 25).
“These include induction, SMAT-P and LEAD-P, which were resuscitated to propel the service to be capable of competing, favourably, with those of other climes.
“Dr Yemi-Esan, CFR, spoke extensively on digitalisation and Performance Management System, as key drivers of high productivity”, the statement further added.