Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress
The organised labour on Saturday rejected the resolution of the
House of Representatives seeking the upward review of the minimum wage
for Nigerian workers to N30,000 from the current N18,000, according to
Punch.
Speaking on the issue, the President of the Trade Union Congress,
Bobboi Kaigama on Saturday said that the organised labour is demanding
N56,000. He stated that the labour unions were awaiting the executive
arm of government to set up a committee to speed up the process.
“The procedure is for the tripartite body to sit down and agree
on a figure, present it to the National Executive Council, National
Council of State and to the National Assembly,” he said.
The Nigerian Labour Congress on its part, commended the
recommendation of the House of Representatives but said that the process
to determine an approved minimum wage has started with a tripartite
engagement involving the labour, the private sector and the government.
The General Secretary of the NLC, Peter Ezon, stated this in an interview with our correspondent on Saturday.
He said the tripartite arrangement would recommend the minimum wage
to the government and in turn take it to the National Assembly for
legislation.
“We welcome the concerns of the House of Representatives
members and we also beg them to put more pressure on government to
institute the process of the tripartite committee so that it can be
concluded and returned to the National Assembly,” Ezon said.
The NLC scribe said some state governors were struggling to pay the
N18,000 minimum wage because they failed to set their priorities right.
He accused the Federal Government of delaying the process of sending the approved new minimum wage to the National Assembly.
He warned that the labour movement was losing patience with the
government and might be forced to act appropriately to achieve its
demands.
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