SALARIES AND INCREMENT
SECTION 1 - SALARIES
SECTION 2 - INCREMENT RULES
SECTION 1 - SALARIES
Payment of Salaries
05101 - Financial Regulations contain guidance on the payment of salaries and wages
Salaries of Appointment
05102 – On first appointment, salary shall, as a general rule be paid
from the date of assumption of duty.
05103 - On transfer from another Government to the Abia State Civil Service a staff shall be eligible for the salary attaching to his new office with effect from the day he assumes duty.
05104 - Except in a case of a promotion from a non-pensionable to a. pensionable office, the following rules shall apply where an officer is promoted in the ordinary course within the Abia State Civil Service to an office carrying salary on an incremental scale:
- If the officer is promoted to a salary scale that does not overlap his old salary scale, he will be placed at the minimum point of his new scale.
- If his salary in the former post is higher than the minimum point of his new scale of salary, he will be placed at the next point, higher than his former salary.
SECTION 2 - INCREMENT RULES
Increment as of Right
05201 - An officer on an incremental scale shall normally be granted an increment unless he is on interdiction/suspension or has a disciplinary action pending against him.
Incremental Date
05202 - The incremental date of an officer appointed or promoted to a post in the Abia State Civil Service shall be the anniversary of the date he commenced to draw the full salary of such appointment or of the date of the promotion, advanced to the first day of the month concerned.
DEFERRING AND WITHHOLDING OF INCREMENTS
05203 - The grant of an increment may be deferred or withheld in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 4. In deciding which penalty to impose or recommend, a Permanent Secretary/Head of Extra-Ministerial Department will take into account the gravity of the shortcoming and the quality of the officer's previous service, bearing in mind that to withhold an increment is a more serious penalty than to defer it.
Deferred Increment
05204 - An officer's increment is deferred when the decision as to whether or not it shall be granted is postponed for a specific period. The period must be fixed at the time the increment is deferred and must not be less than three months nor more than six months; if less than six months in the first instance, it may, if necessary, be increased to six months by additional specific deferment.
If a deferred increment is eventually granted it does not become effective until the day following the expiration of the specific period of deferment, but the recipient retains his original incremental date for subsequent increments. If a deferred increment is not granted at or before the expiration of six months from the date it was originally due it must be withheld.
Example
For example, if an officer who is due to proceed from N6,282 to N6,932 per annum on 1-1-89 had his increment deferred for three months, his salary shall remain at N6,282 until 31-3-89 when his Permanent Secretary/Head of Extra-Ministerial Department must decide whether or not to grant the deferred increment. If he grants it, the officer draws salary at N6,932 for the period 1-4-89 to 31-12-89 (i.e. the remaining nine months) and retains his original incremental date of 1st January for consideration of his next increment to N7,582.
05205 - An officer's increment is withheld when it is decided not to grant it and that he shall cease to be eligible thereof until his next incremental date. The withholding of an increment thus results in the salary of the officer in question remaining for the rest of his incremental service one increment behind what it would have been had the increment not been withheld (unless the Abia State Civil Service Commission exercises the authority described in Rule 05207.21758 Example - An officer due to proceed from N1,482 to N1,536 per annum on 1-2-62 to 31-1-63 and he cannot proceed to N1,536 until 1- 2-63, his next incremental date.
05206 – An increment deferred or withheld cannot be restored with retrospective effect in consequence of improved service during a later increment-earning period.
Special Increments to Mitigate lasting Effect of Withheld Increment
05207 - When an officer's increment has been withheld under Rule 05205, the Abia State Civil Service Commission, may at any subsequent incremental date, grant one or more special increments having the effect of raising the salary of the officer to or towards the level it would have reached if the previous withholding had not occurred.