The Federal Government has released half of November 2022 check-off dues deducted from the salaries of all lecturers of federal universities in the country to the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
It was reported that the Ministry of Labour and Employment withheld the check-off dues of the union.
The ministry’s spokesman, Olajide Oshundun, in an said the decision of the government was based on the failure of ASUU to submit its audit reports.
The check-off dues are the money deducted from an employee’s pay for membership in a union or an organisation that represents workers in a particular industry.
You can’t make full deductions and then remit half of what you deducted into the account of the union. The government needs to let us know what they plan to do with the money still with them.”
Efforts to get the comments of the spokesperson of the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Oshundun, proved abortive as calls and messages sent to his line remained unanswered as of the time of filing this report