pocohantas:


I very well understand the meaning of pay per hour. I understand its demerits and implications too. So if you took some time to read and check the opening post, you wouldn’t have missed this.

Now we have many Burger Kings and all in Nigeria being paid 15k a month. They consider this a job and get sacked anyhow. Why are they not being paid per hour. That is the question, Sir. Thank you.
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I gave the answer to your ''query'' in my last paragraph - It is a US of A thing. Can Nigeria employers handle the employee absenteism, etc which come with the territory?
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But the paychecks are not even regular in Nigeria. These workers wait for months to get paid. So?

ThierryJay:


Sorry to sound like a killjoy about your tax-free "enjoyment", but what your Company is doing is tax evasion and they will pay it all back if they are audited by this revenue-aggressive administration.

Your initial 50% is supposed to be taxed as it is not exempt. But your company is smart to exclude it from the pension calculation base in order to reduce the amount of their financial contribution to your old age by half. So they are actually doing themselves a favour reducing their cost of keeping you in employment while you also get to chop part of your old age money now, making it look like a win-win.

Smart management

Klass99:
Most of these civil service ministries and some private sector employers, no dey fit pay monthly salary, reliably, as and when due. Na hourly dem go fit pay?

Make we reason am na, they usually have about 25 - 28 days to plan towards salaries but when the month ends na story. I worry that hourly payments may even be harder to implement, las las if you clocked in 80 hours, they will decide to only pay 40 hours with some BS story.

To answer your question, I won't mind hourly pay. I get to decide how many hours per day I want to work and work-life balance will be a reality in my control. We pay too much lip service to work-life balance in Naija and in a city like Lasgidi it should be actively enforced.

tfelicityk:
This is good question...
It will only happen if Nigeria embark on manufacturing and production processes. The suggestion will create more job opportunities for others out there.

izzou:


Most times, four people are doing one person's job.

If the civil service is restructured, many of them would be jobless

You need to visit some ministries and see how they are idling away doing nothing

pocohantas:


A system that works!!!

When they are owing for months. What do the civil servants do within that period? They come to work?

cococandy:


Exactly. They come to work because they know if they do not come, they’ll be fired. But that’s also why some of them take up side hustles in the work place.
I don’t doubt izzou when he said some of them don’t do anything but I totally understand.

cococandy:
hehehe. Wahala.

See don’t even get me started on the fire service system. They have a whole office and employees but not one fire truck in sight. At least the fire service station in my area didn’t have one before I left . Hopefully it’s different now. Now what are the employees supposed to be doing at work?
You can’t even call them when there’s an emergency.

izzou:


These guys collect money for almost nothing. Let's not forget about Pension and gratuity when they retire or die.

You see Nigeria's problem? It can't be solved

GloriousGbola:


One guy shared a hard dominatrix video and was saying he was told this is how rapists are punished in China. I am sure na the same guy sef.

budaatum:


Civil servants don't usually get hourly pay anywhere except the lowest grades so I wouldn't expect it from government where civil servants can be at home or peeling egusi claiming pay for work. Government is not that mumu. In fact, I'm beginning to wonder if the none payment of salary is due to civil servants not generating revenue.

adverttrading:
Hourly pay means you get paid for when you are actually working . It's not funny at all.
I once taught a 1 hour class but finished teaching the syllabus content in 40 minutes and left the class after giving them assignment. When payday came, the company paid me for 40 minutes !

Calculate that for over a month.

Meanwhile, employers who pay per hour monitor to see that you are actually working, no loafing around or wasting time. That is why they pay high rates per hour.

Love800:
Good evening all. Pls i want to really know who a civil servant is. I have always be hearing civil servants all d time but don't know who they are actually. Can someone point dem out to me. And also again who are d public servants too. These tinz confuse me. Pls anyone who can figure it out. Tank u

Klass99:
Most of these civil service ministries and some private sector employers, no dey fit pay monthly salary, reliably, as and when due. Na hourly dem go fit pay?

Make we reason am na, they usually have about 25 - 28 days to plan towards salaries but when the month ends na story. I worry that hourly payments may even be harder to implement, las las if you clocked in 80 hours, they will decide to only pay 40 hours with some BS story.

To answer your question, I won't mind hourly pay. I get to decide how many hours per day I want to work and work-life balance will be a reality in my control. We pay too much lip service to work-life balance in Naija and in a city like Lasgidi it should be actively enforced.

mignone:

Right there.
Many govt agencies aren't adding values. Others generate little to no revenue bt even d govt doesn't want d system to work.
These politicians profit more from our social problems.
As for 'idle' ppl receiving salaries, it's d best for now till d advent of restructuring. How else will citizens make end meets? Imagine a fifth of civil/public servants out of job; dt'll be disastrous to d society.
There's kuku no measure to what our so-called leaders loot. Not justifying mediocrity, bt then it is what it is for now.

cococandy:


one time I started a new job and my IT clearance didn’t work properly so I couldn’t clock in my hours electronically. Per protocol, I used a paper time sheet to log my time pending my IT clearance and somehow someone in the payroll missed my time sheet so I didn’t get paid for two weeks.
OMG.

The director called to apologize. The union president called to apologize. The CNO called to apologize. Emails and emails to follow up to make sure they didn’t miss it during the next pay period.
Tell me why I won’t be motivated to go to work?

Our employers need to really adopt the practice of making sure they take the employees time seriously. This hourly pay thing might be the solution if enough people get on board.

Obviously state government won’t get on board because they are the professionals at owing civil servants for 6 months. Useless governors

izzou:


I have a friend currently serving in a Federal Ministry in Abuja.

She goes whenever she likes. They do nothing in her department. Some days, they share money sef.

She can video call me for 3 hours at work. That's how jobless they are there.

I can tolerate a case for jobs outside the civil service. Most of them are paid to do nothing

budaatum:


Funny thing is, restructuring involves the elimination of "'idle' ppl receiving salaries", just that most peoples' "advent of restructuring" does not include "a fifth of civil/public servants out of job".

You may not be condoning mediocrity but paying for mediocrity encourages mediocrity. If mediocrity stops being rewarded people will up their game. Restructuring should be for positive change and not for same ol' same ol'.

mignone:

I understand u fully well but who stops the mediocrity - either by halting d pay of d idle or whatever?
What do our leaders "get paid" for?
Dt's why I keep hoping "restructuring" does it when it eventually happens. I'm optimistic!

budaatum:


Our leaders "get paid" for mediocrity. Mediocre Nigerians elect mediocre individuals to lead them mediocrelly, and only a restructuring of our mediocre minds is required for mediocrity to stop.

Basically, if you and I and many more others de-mediocre ourselves we would not chose mediocre to lead us just as we would never chose a blind person to lead us if we ourselves had only one eye.

budaatum:


Our leaders "get paid" for mediocrity. Mediocre Nigerians elect mediocre individuals to lead them mediocrelly, and only a restructuring of our mediocre minds is required for mediocrity to stop.

Basically, if you and I and many more others de-mediocre ourselves we would not chose mediocre to lead us just as we would never chose a blind person to lead us if we ourselves had only one eye.
Hmmm... thought provoking but how many more nigerians can I/you convince when d majority are "rotten".
I know what I experience d times I try to (e.g.) dissuade ppl from littering d roads/streets, same with my siblings &other like-minded ppl cos we share similar values.
Anyway, it doesn't stop me tho. People know me for my principles at work.
I'm stills optimistic though.

mignone:

Hmmm... thought provoking but how many more nigerians can I/you convince when d majority are "rotten".
I know what I experience d times I try to (e.g.) dissuade ppl from littering d roads/streets, same with my siblings &other like-minded ppl cos we share similar values.
Anyway, it doesn't stop me tho. People know me for my principles at work.
I'm still optimistic.

budaatum:


First, the majority of Nigerians are not rotten. If you go in the streets of your Nigerian neighbourhood or your Nigerian workplace to test this fact for yourself you will find more not-rotten Nigerians than rotten ones, but you thinking otherwise is indicative of you not being optimistic enough despite the stated evidence, "People know me for my principles at work".

In my own neighbourhood my people have seen me picking litter around my house so dare not litter around my house least they need to see me picking it up for them with my semi grey hairs. They in fact claim I have jujufied the land. They may horse about approaching my yard but their mediocrity stops as soon as they step on my land while walking across my compound coming back from school or market or I stick them with a ban so they have to go the long way round and they would not be able to receive the carrot of reading and exercise books from me nor would they be able to beg me to help them with their school fees which pisses off their poor parents.

Think horse taming. Instead of blaming the horse you catch in the wild for not carrying you and your luggage, you train the horse with the stick and carrots to wear a bit and carry you and your luggage wherever you wish it to go. That, is the definition of lead. But one must first train oneself to be a horse tamer I guess, or one's cart may end up pulling one's horse.

pocohantas:


I very well understand the meaning of pay per hour. I understand its demerits and implications too. So if you took some time to read and check the opening post, you wouldn’t have missed this.

Now we have many Burger Kings and all in Nigeria being paid 15k a month. They consider this a job and get sacked anyhow. Why are they not being paid per hour. That is the question, Sir. Thank you.



But the paychecks are not even regular in Nigeria. These workers wait for months to get paid. So?

alphaNomega:


Please read my post again