The National leadership of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has directed its state chapters to immediately commence negotiations with their state governments to arrive at consequential adjustments on the N30,000 new minimum wage.
The labour parent body, however, asked the state chapters to await the table which will be drawn by the federal government in line with the recent agreement with labour on the consequential adjustments.
Deputy National President of NLC, Comrade Amaechi Asuguni, gave the directive as the outcome of NLC 2019 National Leadership Retreat that ended in Enugu yesterday.
Asuguni said that the national leadership of NLC will also send monitoring committees to states to entire standardized agreements so that no state will shortchange others, even there would be minor differences with regard to the capacity of each state.
He said, “The outcome of this conference is that the agreement has been reached, a table will be worked out at the federal level and sent to the states. We want a table that will be brought out to be a guideline so that state councils will not go and state formulating different tables so that there will be a minimum standard.
“That is our position; that headquarters of NLC will guide the states so that they will work within the benchmark of the table so that we don’t have a staggered or anyhow agreement by the state government and the labour.”
NLC advised workers in the country not to be in a hurry saying it has not been easy to reach the agreement and having reached the agreement, there is a need to put in certain things in motion to come out with the table.
“You can see the percentages, they are different, with different categories of levels. So it will be worked out holistically, you don’t just rush. This table hopefully by next week, we are thinking it should come out. It is not something to be rushed out.
“We want the workers to be patient, the patience they had while the negotiation lasted they should have that patience, the agreement has been signed, the consequential adjustment agreement has also been signed, we are just waiting for the time for implementation.”
The labour leader said that it will be unfortunate if any state refuses to comply with the new minimum wage act, and vowed that “labour is there to engage them by any means legally possible”

source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/10/minimum-wage-nlc-directs-states-to-negotiate-consequential-adjustments/

It's commendable. I hope the Government keeps to its word this time and not claim there's no money to pay


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Ok, any state Gov that is not ready for immediate implementation should be impeached sharply.

No excuse for minimum wage implementation.

K

This is victory for democracy. We are progressing and Nigeria shall be great again.

God bless Buhari for upholding the Rule of law

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Cherrybae:
This is victory for democracy. We are progressing and Nigeria shall be great again.

God bless Buhari for upholding the Rule of law

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Why not just enforce the adjustments already negotiated with the Federal Government? Or are they hoping to get more in some states?

This greed of NLC will get them into trouble. Some Governors will spend 2 years pricing it like crayfish without paying.

They shouldn't waste time about it, since the negotiations have be completed by the FG, all states should go along with that pattern

Directing States to negotiate consequential adjustment while also telling them to wait for the table.
Is that not placing the cart before the horse.

This country is a big time joke... Just to pay workers their minimum wage na problem to the government.

But they will pay em senators their monthly allowances (Wardrobe allowance,Hardship allowance and even Newspaper allowance worth millions of Naira without any stress.


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Cherrybae:
This is victory for democracy. We are progressing and Nigeria shall be great again.

God bless Buhari for upholding the Rule of law

What rule of law did he uphold?
Why are you cheering a president for what is required of him by the constitution?
And besides,going by the constitution, this minimum wage that was signed on April 2019 by the president should have been done by 2016 as explicitly stated!

netpro:
Why not just enforce the adjustments already negotiated with the Federal Government? Or are they hoping to get more in some states?

This greed of NLC will get them into trouble. Some Governors will spend 2 years pricing it like crayfish without paying.

We are in a Federation

Vixlot:

We are in a Federation

New negotiations will give some Governors the room to avoid the increase. They will keep negotiating back and forth, while paying the old rates, pending when negotiations are completed.

The FG should pass a law to ensure every state government must comply with the afore mentioned minimum wage increase otherwise some governors will take this issue as a market pricing avenue

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WILL THE STATES PAY THE SAME THING THE FEDERAL WILL BE PAYING??

That is the only question both FG and NLC will answer and get all our curiosity doused.