The Anambra State Government has fulfilled its threat to reduce the pay of employees who skipped work on Mondays over the biafra imposed sit-at-home in the South-East.
In January, the state government declared that it would implement a pro-rata payment system in which civil servants who missed work on Mondays would have their salaries deducted.
According to sources, after receiving bank warnings regarding their earnings, some Anambra state personnel bemoaned significant deductions from their February salaries on Tuesday.
At Jerome Udoji State Secretariat in Awka, the state capital, some workers lamented that the deductions did not tally with the number of Mondays they failed to show up for work.
One of the employees, who wished to remain anonymous, claimed that after deductions, a coworker in his office was only paid N100 for February.
The employee, who works for the Ministry of Information, bemoaned receiving only N3,500 out of his over N80,000 pay.
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He said: “One of my colleagues said that she received her salary with N10,000 cut off from it. The cuts are irregular, but I think there were mistakes in the computing because some people who missed work only once or twice had huge deductions from their salaries.”
When reached, the Commissioner for Information, Dr. Law Mefor, confirmed to journalists that the deductions were punishment for failure to come to work on Mondays.
He said: “The salary cut is a punishment for failure to come to work on Mondays. The instruction was that when you come to work on Mondays, you clock in, and, at the close of work, you clock out. That is to show that you came to work.
“But, if you came to work on Mondays but you didn’t clock in, and, didn’t clock out, it means that you didn’t come to work because there is no evidence to show that you came to work.”
