EDSG LIFTS EMBARGO ON EMPLOYMENT.

Edo State Government has lifted the embargo placed on employment in the state civil service by the past administrators. He said the state government decided not to accept the decision of past administrations to place embargo on employment across all sectors of the civil service because of the huge wage bill. In his own words: “I understand and I do fully appreciate the logic and decision by previous governments to retrench and freeze employment. The idea was to cut down the cost of salary personnel cost which is seeing workers as a burden. But I see workers as the most available resource to government and to society”. He noted. According to him, such a resource must be promoted, must be encouraged, he should not be retrenched or freezed out. “We can only break out of poverty by showing courage, not by lamenting.” The comrade Governor, who faulted the decision of the National Council on Establishment for limiting the grade level of civil servants to sixteen, disclosed that workers in the state civil service who merit it can now rise to Grade Level 17. He also said: “The state government has decided to remove the obnoxious policy that states that state civil servants cannot rise beyond Grade Level 16. I think it is wrong and since Edo State draws its powers from the constitution, we decided to set aside that obnoxious policy and to fulfill the promise I made to the civil servants on May 14th”.

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