NLC rekindles agitation for extension of retirement age
Joe Ajero, the president of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), has reportedly said the union would rekindle its agitation for extension of retirement age of civil servants, currently pegged at 65 years and 40 years of active service.
A report, quoting Ajero, said that the government had only implemented the reform piecemeal.
“Only few other establishments, including the core civil service, are now left out.
“We are, therefore, demanding that the age of retirement and length of service in the entire public service, including the civil service, be reviewed upward to 65 years of age and 40 years of service,” Ajero reportedly stated.
Hakeem Ambali, who is national treasurer of the workers’ union, said the agitation would ensure its members do not suffer after retirement.
“We are going to negotiate that, to avert the imminent crisis and suffering of our members whose Contributory Pension Deduction were not remitted to their PFAS by a large percentage of labour employers.
“So that they (workers) are not pushed to premature death and penury, such window of five years is expected to form a transition period of normalising the scheme,” Ambali said.
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Begun with the immediate past government, the union is demanding that the government increased the retiring age from 65 years to 70 years, as it did with the Nigerian Union of Teachers, (NUT).
