Nigeria: Hazard Allowance - Johesu, Ahpa Allege Short-Change of Health Workers

31 December 2021

Health workers under the auspices of the Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU/the Assembly of Healthcare Professionals Associations, AHPA, have alleged short-changed in the payment of the agreed Hazard Allowance to their members, calling on the Federal Government to immediately remedy the lapses.

Meanwhile, JOHESU has commended the Federal Government for the timely intervention of releasing the circular for the payment of the hazard allowance for health workers even as it faulted the circular for containing what it described "as a restrictive clause" which excluded certain categories of health workers from being paid the hazard allowance.

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