The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) has suspended its 10-day old strike.
Biobelemoye Josiah, National Chairman of JOHESU confirmed this to newsmen after the meeting with the Minister of Labour and Employment on Saturday in Abuja.
Josiah said that the leadership of JOHESU would hold an emergency National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on October 3.
“Our members are expected to arrive Abuja for the meeting on Tuesday to ratify the agreement reached.
“NEC will deliberate on the agreements reached with the Federal Government with a view to call off the on-going strike action early next week,” he said.
Prof. Stephen Ocheni, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, disclosed thats all issues presented by the unions were exhaustively discussed.
Ocheni said that the agreement reached was with specific timelines.
The unions demands include adjustment of CONHESS salary as done for CONMESS since 2014, and abolition of scale to scale promotion, payment of outstanding arrears of promotion, skipping and relativity.
Others are autonomy of Teaching and Specialist Hospitals, non-implementation of court judgments, review of retirement age from 60-65 years as done for the Tertiary Education Sector.
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