Nigeria Employers’ Consultative
Association, NECA, has faulted the National Council of State’s decision to
approve two minimum wage.
The National Council of State
presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari had on Tuesday approved N30,000 for
federal workers and N27,000 for states and the private sector.
NECA said it was alien to have
two minimum wage.
It urged the organised labour to
lobby the National Assembly for a minimum wage of N30,000 across board.
‘’Ordinarily, a recommendation is
not cast in stone, but advisory to the President. The International Labour
Organisation, ILO, Minimum Wage Setting Mechanism as domesticated in Nigeria,
permits the National Economic Council and, of course, the National Council of
State to take a further look at the recommendations and make their inputs to
the President.
“While it is desirable that they
accept and adopt the recommendations of the committee, it is also within their
rights to make their own independent recommendations.
“The process never envisaged a
situation of rubber stamping the recommendations of the Tripartite Committee.
‘’The National Minimum Wage
process also gives the National Assembly the liberty to tinker with the figure
in the interest of the nation and the citizens. Such tinkering could be an
upward review of the recommendations, which would be desirable to the workers.”
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