The Organised Labour has given the Federal Government till May ending to finalise the process of implementing the new national minimum wage for workers.
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Mr Joe
Ajaero, made the demand on Wednesday in Abuja at the 2024 edition of the
International Workers Day.
This year’s celebration focuses on ‘Ensuring Safety and
Health at Work in a Changing Climate’.
The labour leader warned that if the negotiation is not
concluded by the ending of May, there may not be industrial peace in Nigeria.
Ajaero said the process of fixing a new national minimum
wage was still ongoing and had witnessed robust engagements.
“All parties in the tripartite process are well represented
and the engagement has been robust.
“We have placed our demand of N615, 000 only before our
social partners while we await their offer.
“If, however, the negotiation of the minimum wage is not
concluded by the end of May, the trade union movement in Nigeria will no longer
guarantee industrial peace in the country,” he said.
Ajaero also said labour had placed a demand that the new Act
would have a two-year life span with an agreement for automatic adjustments in
wages any time inflation exceeded 7.5 per cent.
He said the union further demanded that every employer with
up to five workers should pay the new minimum wage.
Ajaero called for the strengthening of monitoring and
compliance mechanisms in order to penalise non-complying state governments.
He said that Nigerian workers deserve to have a national
minimum wage that approximated a living wage.
Fuck NLC and federal government, you two are playing with people's lives. U you think is a joke right.
ReplyDeleteFederal government herself was never serious, they are always never serious when is concerned the masses.
If govt is serious, they will give ultimatum and everything will happen quickly.
But if is anything that concerns the politicians, is one day, it be done.
We know this country very well.
Nigeria is a country that enjoyed, seen it's people suffer. It's a place where the middle and low class citizens are considered as slaves.
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