Osun State Government has said that it was not in anyway owing civil servants in the state going by the modulated salary structure agreed upon by the government and the labour unions.
Commissioner of Information, Mr Adelani Baderinwa in a statement on Tuesday described those writing or talking about backlog of salaries as “mischief makers and naysayers who are trying to sell propaganda in lieu of facts”.
He explained that the modulated structure of salary payment as conceived by the government, and equally endorsed by various labour unions in the state simply connotes full salary for workers in grade 1 to 7, while workers between grade level 8 to 12 get 75 per cent of their salaries.
According to him, “Outside the category of workers on grade level 13 and above, no other receives half of his or her salaries, and the workers in this category are just about 20 per cent of the state’s workforce.
“For the purpose of emphasis, explanation and clarification, workers in the state of Osun are paid based on modulated salary structure agreed upon by the government and the labour unions in the state.
“The government wishes to state that contrary to the report by a national daily on Tuesday, it does not owe any workers, if the modulated salary structure agreement is anything to go by.
“We have been saying it loud and clear that workers on levels 8-12 receive 75 percent of their salaries while officers on levels 7 and below receive their full pay.
“All workers in the state have received their salaries up to October this year. As we pay active workers, so we pay pensioners.
“The only outstanding payment to pensioners is the gratuity and this is due to workers who choose not to participate in the Contributory Pension Scheme and therefore left service in 2011/2012”.
The statement further enunciated that workers on levels 8 and above received the July and August arrears when the government paid in July this year, after receiving the second tranche of the Paris Club Loan Refund.
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