The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has demanded N794,000 as the new national minimum wage for workers in the south-west zone.
Funmi Sessi, chairperson of the Lagos state chapter of the
NLC, said this on Thursday during her presentation at the ongoing public
hearing of the tripartite committee on national minimum wage in Lagos.
According to Punch, Sessi said the demand was agreed upon by
all the members of the union in the south-west.
On January 30, the federal government inaugurated a
37-member tripartite committee on national minimum wage.
The committee is tasked with the responsibility of
recommending a new national minimum wage for Nigerian workers.
The committee, comprising representatives of the federal and
state governments, private sector and organised labour, is chaired by Bukar
Goni Aji, former head of service of the federation.
Speaking during an interview on Arise Television in
February, Joe Ajaero, NLC president, said the new minimum wage for workers
should be N1 million.
The NLC president said the demand is a reflection of
galloping inflation in the country and the depreciation of the naira.
“This N1 million may be relevant if the value of the
Nigerian (naira) continues to depreciate and if the inflation is not checked
because the demand of labour is equally dependent on what is happening in the
society,” Ajaero said.
“You will remember that by the time we were contemplating
N200,000, the exchange rate was about N800/N900. As we talk today, the exchange
rate is about N1,400 or even more.”
If you try to section national minimum wage in this country,
ReplyDeleteAll your efforts will fall,
You better have one voice and help the suffering civil servants especially in the states where their wicked governors refuse to improve their standard of living for many years now.
Whatever you are doing,
There must be a clause that will force these governors to pay in their states/LGAs
Is minimum wage now sectionalized in this country? Don't the country have a common market where they buy things?
ReplyDeleteThis labour union that are trying to sectionalize this wages, does that make any sense, I expect labour to tackle the president on how to bring the cost of commodity down, stop the smuggling of food outside the country, open the boarder if we don't have enough to feed on, if you like call for 2million naira for minimum wage, the government will not pay that because some state can not survive without federal allocation, majority of our governors are corrupt, they are finding a way to cash out.
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