University instructors will not be paid for work that is not completed in accordance with the “No work, no pay” policy, the Federal Government has insisted.
This information was disclosed by Adamu Adamu, the minister of education, in an Abuja press conference with State House reporters.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, which began its strike in February, reportedly called it off in October in response to the Court of Appeal’s ruling ordering the professors back to work.
Following the calling off of the strike, the government paid the lecturers half salaries for the month of October, while insisting that it would not pay for the months the lecturers were on strike.
ASUU had in turn organised protests across the country.
But the Minister of Education, on Wednesday, said the position of the Federal Government was that the lecturers “would not be paid for work not done.”
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The minister also reacted to the allegation made by the President of ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodoke, that paying the lecturers on pro-rata basis was a ploy to make them casual workers.
“Nobody can make university lecturers casual workers,” he said.
When told that the lecturers were threatening a one-day action to protest government’s action, Adamu said he was not aware.
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