Ngige sets to meet with Buhari over New Minimum Wage
According to Naija news Reports, Senator Chris Ngige, The minister of Labour and Employment,has said he will meet with Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president over the stalemated negotiation on the new N30,000 minimum wage consequential adjustment.
Naija News understands that the minister of labour and employment made this known in a statement on Thursday, September 26.
The Labour minister in his statement also assured the leadership of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Nigerian workers that the issue of the new minimum wage and its consequential adjustments, particularly to those on Grade Levels 7 to 17, will be sorted out as soon as possible.
Ngige pointed out that in reality, the Federal Government has already commenced the implementation of the new minimum wage, because strictly, it (minimum wage) is meant for those between level 1 and 6, which the government had started paying.
“Because if we talk strictly about the minimum wage, it is already being implemented, because the minimum wage is for the person on the lower rung of the ladder,” the minister told the leadership of the NLC during a courtesy visit by the congress to the Minister.
He said it was unfortunate that negotiations was deadlocked from levels 7 to 17, adding, “the NLC and the TUC have not been involved, but when we come back, we will involve you so that we can have a speedy movement in this respect.”
Ngige acknowledged that the issue of the minimum wage is a difficult one, saying, “the issue of National minimum wage decision was very thorny, in the course of that, tempers flared and there were misgivings and all of that, but finally, we got to a standpoint that gave us 66.7 per cent rise, from 18, 000 to 30, 000.
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