The Nigeria Labour Congress has faulted the comments credited to governors that states should determine their minimum wage in their domains. “This notion is not only dictatorial but also undermines the very essence as well as the model adopted for creating a national minimum wage in Nigeria,” the NLC said in a Friday statement by its Head of Information and Public Affairs Benson Upah.....Read The Full Story Here ▶
Labour unions, the government, and the private sector have been locked in negotiations over a new minimum wage for months.
The tripartite committee on the new minimum wage had proposed N62,000 as a new minimum wage while organised labour insists on N265,000.
President Bola Tinubu later received the report of the committee, promising to pay what the country can afford.
He is still consulting with stakeholders after which a bill to enact a new minimum wage will be sent to the National Assembly.
In a meeting earlier this week, the Southern Governors’ Forum argued that the minimum wage should not be uniform.
States should pay what they can afford, they insisted.
“The Forum discussed the minimum wage issues demanded by labour and unanimously agreed that the minimum wage should be reflective of the cost of living and ability to pay, and each State be allowed to negotiate their minimum wage,” the governors said in a communique.
