Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, have commenced a three day nationwide protest to pressure the Federal Government to include non teaching staff in primary and post primary schools in the Harmonised Retirement Age for Teachers in Nigeria Bill (2021).
The Bill is expected to be transmitted to the National Assembly for enactment into law.
The Federal Government had excluded non teaching staff in a planned legislation to extend the retirement age of teachers to 65 years and the years of service to 40 years from the current 35 years as well as special salary scale and enhanced allowances.
Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari during the Teachers Day in 2020 announced the new incentives for teachers in public basic and secondary schools in Nigeria.
Addressing a protest at the National Assembly complex Abuja, Monday, the NASU FCT council chairman, Adebola Bamidele, said since the announcement by President Buhari the non teaching staff have been pushing for their inclusion in the new condition of service.
He said non teaching staff deserved to be included in the new condition of service as they are the engine room in schools.
He called on the Federal Government to include the Non-Teaching staff in the approved Special Teacher Pension Scheme to guarantee better welfare for them in retirement and also extend their retirement age to 65 years and length of service to 40 years.
The Union urged the federal and state governments to put an end to what it described as all discriminatory industrial relations practices against the Non-Teaching staff in the primary and post primary schools system.
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