...A recent observations by me over the course of five years has shown that most small medium and small scale firms which actually employs majority of NIGERIANS are in the bad habit of seriously underpaying staffs of such firms.i strongly believe this is a widespread occurrence due to govt negligence..for example,a bet9ja shop near my area with say ten 8-7pm staffs, in this firm. the commission of the owner due to its high being activities is 300k per week..but the owner still pays the staffs 15k per month.. also, all the hotels around me all pay their staffs a maximum of 15 k per month,thus making very hard working large population of worker to remain extremely poor......plz nairalanders what are your suggestions as to what govt can do to stem this ugly trend

What I feel the government has to do is introduce per hour payment system as practiced in many countries. They can peg payment at #500 minimum per hour. If this is introduced, workers can work at different places and employers will mind how they use workers anyhow.

Imagine the people working at the betshop 8am-9pm that's 13hrs of work a day with maybe 1hr break getting paid 15k at the end of the month. If they were paid hourly @ #500 that'll be #6,500 a day the employer will have to do a sort of rotation in work days as he'll know paying all the staff that amount daily will wreck him and this will in turn give workers chance to work elsewhere on their off days.

Sheuns:
What I feel the government has to do is introduce per hour payment system as practiced in many countries. They can peg payment at #500 minimum per hour. If this is introduced, workers can work at different places and employers will mind how they use workers anyhow.

Imagine the people working at the betshop 8am-9pm that's 13hrs of work a day with maybe 1hr break getting paid 15k at the end of the month. If they were paid hourly @ #500 that'll be #6,500 a day the employer will have to do a sort of rotation in work days as he'll know paying all the staff that amount daily will wreck him and this will in turn give workers chance to work elsewhere on their off days.

...it's appalling how workers are shortchanged for peanuts...the employer would rather spend d excess on club,or on gals of easy virtue or mayb by cars after cars after another car....somone has to stop dix rubbish

bigpicture001:
...it's appalling how workers are shortchanged for peanuts...the employer would rather spend d excess on club,or on gals of easy virtue or mayb by cars after cars after another car....somone has to stop dix rubbish

It's only our government that can do that. These employers follow the government lead. Imagine when the government pays #18,000 as minimum wage(monthly) why won't the employers be happy to treat workers anyhow. The best bet is to introduce hourly payment scheme at all levels, both government and private sector, till then, workers will continue to be treated as trash.