Employers Enjoined To Make Welfare Of Corps Members A Priority
The Anambra State Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mrs Blessed Ekene Iruma, has on called on Corps employers in the state to prioritise their welfare in the workplaces by giving attention to their safety and comfort at all times.
She made the call during the 2022 Corps Employers Workshop, held at Prof Kenneth Dike Digital Library, Awka, the state capital.
Iruma described as critical, the workshop with the theme, “Achieving Improved Productivity Of Corps Members Through Enhanced Welfare And Security During The Service Year”.
According to her, the workshop would arrive at cogent and vital decisions that would enhance and improve the existing good partnership between the NYSC, Anambra people and the corps members’ employers which, she noted, had transcended to good fortunes for the NYSC members serving in the state.
The state NYSC Coordinator said, “Corps employers are critical stakeholders of NYSC; the scheme has high confidence in you as employers of corps members. It’s not in doubt that the corps members in your employment have done and are still doing their best to contribute to the growth and success of your organisation and the nation at large. It may interest you to put the records down that corps members constitute 62.5 percent of teaching staff in schools in Anambra State.
“This is my first corps employers workshop since I assumed duty here in Anambra a few months ago, hence the desire to put heads together on the need for proper care to the corps members to stimulate proactiveness, responsibility, dedication, and for feedback towards proper utilization of the serving corps members in the state.
Iruma further intimated that 63percent of teachers in the state are corps members, pointing out that the present state government approved the employment of no fewer than 5,000 teachers for both primary and secondary schools.
She commended the state government for its support to the scheme, and appealed to corps members employers to be paying them reasonable allowance of at east N10,000; provide accommodation and also show them love for security, as well as to inculcate in them, hard-working, discipline and core values.
The workshop also urged employers to prioritize Health Insurance for the corps members in their various places of work.
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