GOVERNORS should include the payment of the new national minimum wage in their 2019 Appropriation Bills, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has counselled.

Labour said doing so remained the only to avoid friction and crisis in the New Year, adding that the state governments are buoyant enough to pay the N30, 000 being demanded for workers as minimum wage.

NLC President Ayuba Wabba told The Nation in a chat that the minimum expectations from workers as the President presents the national budget “is for provisions to be made in the budget for the implementation of the minimum wage.”

Wabba, who recently became the first African and the first black man to be elected President of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), described as unfortunate that workers continued to bear the brunt of economic hardship, with nobody fighting their cause whenever the economy improves.

He said that governors only say they cannot implement the minimum wage because of how they have handled the resources at their disposal, saying the issue has nothing to do with the availability of resources.

Wabba said: “Legally, the minimum wage due and the President has openly told the world that he is committed to it. Our minimum expectation is that the minimum wage be accommodated in the budget and for workers to actually begin to benefit from it.

“There is no two way about this because it is legitimately due. So, Nigerian workers should not be made to suffer the consequences of what they are not responsible for. When the economy is doing well, nobody bothers about workers. But when the economy is worse, the workers will be at the receiving end because in most cases, they are not paid.

“So, when the economy is doing well and when it is not, we have not actually received the desired attention. So, our expectation is that since everybody mutually agreed, the minimum wage should be a priority.”

More at https://www.akelicious.net/2018/12/nlc-to-governors-include-n30-000-wage.html

No need to remind them.

Elections will tell 'em

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It is do able.....

This mod is trying so hard to please me, he or she noticed I was reading this thread and decided to push it to front page at the wee hours of the night.

Some governors have closed to 100 aides. Yet it is hard for them to pay N30,000

Tell them

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Don't mind the idiots, they will never do shit as long as its not for their own benefit.


How can a government that claims to be for the people find it so hard to pay the same people just a 88$ minimum wage

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We still dey this minimum wage mata? South Africa's minimum wage is over N120K........


This politicians would never burn on a cooker, they all deserve wildfire burning...........

I pray dey do so
Useless governors

Does it mean both parties have agreed to pay the 30k ?

wizzyrich:
Does it mean both parties have agreed to pay the 30k ?

I don't think so.

We have not even heard anything from the Federal Government.

NLC should engage the Federal Government consistently.

Even the governors that cant pay #18,000 some having as much as 18 months outstanding saaries arrears to setle to add #30,000 in new budget ?
What a huge joke .

its not just about telling them, its about taking actions so as to be taken seriously.

helinues:
Some governors have closed to 100 aides. Yet it is hard for them to pay N30,000

Some even more.
Ben Ayade

Lexusgs430:
We still dey this minimum wage mata? South Africa's minimum wage is over N120K........


This politicians would never burn on a cooker, they all deserve wildfire burning...........

I wanted to tell you not to compare South Africa and Nigeria's economy and I just remembered that NIGERIA'S ECONOMY IS REGARDED AS LARGER THAN THAT OF SOUTH AFRICA. THESE POLITICIANS HAVE NO EXCUSE. IN FACT, THEY'RE SHAMELESS FOR DRAGGING MINIMUM WAGE OF LESS THAN #100K.

Ayuba wabu is a toothless dog joo

State Govts. should learn how to priortise their spendings