Some varsity lecturers are being owed between 15 and 16 months’ salaries, the management of the Tutorial Workers Union of Universities (ASUU), claimed on Sunday.
The union mentioned these largely affected are lecturers who went on sabbatical. The declare couldn’t be verified final night time.
The varsity lecturers accused Workplace of the Accountant-Normal of the Federation (OAGF) of intentionally irritating the lecturers to a degree of desperation as a way to seize them on the controversial Built-in Personnel and Payroll Data System (IPPIS) of the federal government.
ASUU’s continued rejection of the payroll system, led to the introduction of the College Transparency and Accountability Answer (UTAS). It was developed by the college lecturers.
ASUU President Prof Biodun Ogunyemi instructed The Nation in a chat that the OAGF refusal to pay his colleagues amounted to a violation of the Memorandum of Motion (MoA) ASUU signed with the federal government final December earlier than it referred to as of its 9 month strike.
He mentioned: “On the federal government aspect they’ll say they’ve paid all of the arrears however you may’t say you have got paid all of the arrears when a few of our members are nonetheless being owed. The place that’s taking place, we can not agree that authorities has paid all of the arrears.
“Our members are nonetheless being owed. We’re nonetheless monitoring the fee; the have been performed in bits however as at at the moment we nonetheless have a few of our members, pockets of our members on our campuses that aren’t but paid.
“Actually a few of our members haven’t been paid their salaries for 15 – 16 months. We’ve members who haven’t been paid for fifteen to sixteen months. A few of them who went on sabbatical they don’t pay them and they’re pushing them to the purpose of desperation, as a manner of capturing them on IPPIS.
“We see that as a violation of our Memorandum of Motion which was signed in December, 2020: that our members will likely be paid their salaries by means of hybrid platform till we finalise the integrity check on UTAS.
“What the guide to IPPIS has been doing is to instigate the Accountant-Normal’s workplace to threaten our members that they won’t be paid in the event that they don’t register on IPPIS. These of our members who made inquiries and went so far as Workplace of the Accountant- Normal of the Federation they instructed them level clean that they won’t be paid until they register on IPPIS.
“We’re collating data on that and we’re ready to take it to the best degree within the land earlier than we take into account what’s to be performed about what the AGF and the guide on IPPIS are doing to our members.
“Denying employees their salaries is a punishment and it violates all recognized commerce union legal guidelines that we all know. If individuals may be denied their salaries for fifteen to sixteen months as a result of they don’t wish to succumb to the strain (of registering on IPPIS), our union will take into account the easiest way to deal with them after taking every part to all the suitable ranges.
“The identical factor with the examine off deductions. We’ve seen that the AGF workplace is withholding the examine of deductions of our members. Though now we have been suggested to compile all of these and ship to the suitable authorities quarters which now we have performed the primary time however as a result of many had been neglected we’re doing it once more.
“We’re participating authorities brokers on all of those and we hope {that a} cease will likely be put to this conceal and search recreation being performed by each the Accountant Normal in addition to the guide to IPPIS.”
Ogunyemi additionally lamented the sluggish tempo of progress on UTAS by the Nationwide Data Expertise Growth Company, (NITDA).
The ASUU chief mentioned: “We’re additionally complaining to authorities on the sluggish tempo of NITDA in finalising the integrity check on UTAS.
“If we had an understanding that the method will likely be accomplished as fastly as doable, we suspect that the IPPIS consultants are placing strain or they’re discouraging the finalisation of UTAS in order that they will proceed to place our members for the platform that now we have rejected.”
