The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)
has stated that no Technical Committee will look into the already agreed
N30,000.
The NLC was reacting to President
Muhammadu Buhari’s statement that a “high powered technical committee” would be
set up to look into the ability of state governments to pay the already agreed
minimum wage to avoid job loss.
Buhari spoke at the presentation
of 2019 Appropriation Bill to the National Assembly in Abuja.
“To avoid a system crisis on the
Federal Government and states, it is important to device ways to ensure that
its implementation does not lead to an increase in the level of borrowing.
“I am, accordingly, setting up a
high powered technical committee to advice on ways of funding an increase in
the minimum wage and attendant wage adjustments without having to resort to
additional borrowing.
“The work of the committee will
be the basis of finance bill which will be submitted to the National Assembly
alongside the minimum wage bill,” Buhari said.
Buhari said the committee would
recommend modalities for the implementation of the new minimum wage.
But NLC President, Mr Ayuba
Wabba, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos, that no
Technical Committee would look into the issue of N30,000 minimum wage.
“We cannot use any technical
committee to look into the agreed minimum wage. The President promised to pass
the report to lawmakers a week after it was presented to him.
“Once the tripartite committee
has met and agreed on an amount, no other committee can meet on the same
issue,’’ Wabba said.
He said it was the tripartite
committee’s decision for workers to be paid N30,000 as minimum wage and there
was no going back by labour on the amount.
He disclosed that the organised
labour would meet next week to take a decision of the next line of action.
Earlier, Mr Joe Ajaero, President
of the United Labour Congress (ULC), said that a tripartite committee had
considered the ability of governments to pay the sum before the committee
agreed on it.
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Somebody that changes mouth anyhow. Nigerians if you like still vote for him again when what he deserves is to return to Daura or Sudan as the case may be.
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