Nurses in Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), have
stopped shift duties to protest against the deduction of two months shift
allowances by the hospital’s management.
It was gathered that the Nurses currently resume work at 7
a.m. and close at 3 p.m. on working days, and stay from work at weekends.
The Chairman of the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU), JUTH
chapter, Mustapha Kabir on Friday in Jos, said that the Nurses had been
denied two months shift allowances as punishment for the period they were on
strike in March and April this year.
The two months protest had been declared to force government
to pay shift allowances which were left out when salary payments migrated to
IPPIS in 2015.
However, the Chief Medical Director of JUTH, Dr. Edmund Banwat, in his reaction to the
development, explained that the Nurses had, earlier in the year, abandoned
shift duties to protest the non-payment of three months allowances.
“When government resolved to pay the three months arrears,
it left out the shift allowances because the Nurses abandoned shift duty during
the protest. Government’s action is pursuant to its `no work, no pay policy”.
No comments:
Post a Comment