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slivertongue:
that should be it. different living salaries

kingsways:
They can't have different minimum wages because minimum is MINIMUM!

That's the basic that should enable an individual meet his / her basic needs as a human being. Anyone can choose to pay more BUT no one should be allowed to pay less because to pay less is to dehumanise people and that is not acceptable

helinues:
How many sectors are currently paying N30k as minimum wage? Are there no states still paying N18k as minimum wage.

The concept of standard basic minimum wage is from Capitalists ideas which have not been working.

General minimum wage in a country like Nigeria can't work.

Are you telling me a school owner in a village which all the students are not up to 20 would pay his staff N50k as minimum wage?

It's time to be realistic about this minimum wage issue and fix whatever issue once and for all

kingsways post=130377586:
They can't have different minimum wages because minimum is MINIMUM!

That's the basic that should enable an individual meet his / her basic needs as a human being. Anyone can choose to pay more BUT no one should be allowed to pay less because to pay less is to dehumanise people and that is not acceptable

budaatum:
The question I would rather ask is why would anyone settle for minimum wage when there's lots of skills that can be learned to maximise ones wages?

Do people need to settle for minimum wage when they can learn and maximise their wage potential?

helinues:
How many sectors are currently paying N30k as minimum wage? Are there no states still paying N18k as minimum wage.

The concept of standard basic minimum wage is from Capitalists ideas which have not been working.

General minimum wage in a country like Nigeria can't work.

Are you telling me a school owner in a village which all the students are not up to 20 would pay his staff N50k as minimum wage?

It's time to be realistic about this minimum wage issue and fix whatever issue once and for all

helinues:
Africans mentality about job after graduation is white collar job. Not even aside business after that even upon how creative we used to claim

helinues:
How many sectors are currently paying N30k as minimum wage? Are there no states still paying N18k as minimum wage.

The concept of standard basic minimum wage is from Capitalists ideas which have not been working.

General minimum wage in a country like Nigeria can't work.

Are you telling me a school owner in a village which all the students are not up to 20 would pay his staff N50k as minimum wage?

It's time to be realistic about this minimum wage issue and fix whatever issue once and for all

budaatum:
For minimum wage after graduation?

Anyone who accepts minimum wage after graduation did not learn anything, and should go back to school for more education. They also need to realise that the world is big instead of limiting themselves to Nigeria.

kingsways:
There's a minimum level of investment that is required to run a business. You do not have the right to employ people if you cannot afford to pay the legal minimum wage.

All villages should have government schools. Private schools who can't afford to pay the minimum wage should not be approved by government because such schools can only employ substandard teachers and can only provide poor education

helinues:
Until corrections about what you listed above are fixed, meaning using standard minimum wage for all can never work

helinues:
Hahahah, are the civil servants not graduates? Servants was added for a reason now..

helinues:
Let's forget about state and FG, even N50k as minimum wage, the private sectors would struggle to pay it.

Fingers are not equal oo

budaatum:
A nice way of saying slaves, I guess. It makes the minimum wage strike sound like a please don't beat me strike.

I guess we need to fight to abolish slavery at some point, and here we are.

helinues:
Let FG have their own standard minimum wage, NGF also decide on which minimum wage they can pay and also the private sectors coming up with what they can pay.

What's exactly is the purpose of increasing minimum wage which should be standard but states and Private sectors always use different minimum wage. States that are still paying N18K means they don't use minimum wage, some private sectors pay as low as N10k as minimum wage like security work.

Blue3k:
The answer is the labor unions lobbying the federal government on the matter. They want an increase across the board for obvious reasons. The federal government doesn't have to adjust the minimum wage to adjust its pay rate. The federal government officials aren't clever enough to kick the issue to the states telling labor to negotiate with their state representatives. States can set wages higher than the federal minimum. (Adjust the laws to state such if they dont)

The reason states get away with pay below minimum wage is because the Federal government won't enforce the law. Nobody is going to fined or put in jail. If they were they would obey the law. The consequences will be increased taxes or sacking. The private sector do whatever their legally obligated to do because labor courts will go after them.

helinues:
Then let them have different minimum wage instead of using the general one that others won't abide by

Blue3k:
The government sets the minimum wage. They should just enforce their laws. Acting like the government is powerless is silly. The don't abide because the FG chooses not to prosecute. This issue is handled easily in the United States and how I stated. Nigerians just like making simple issues complicated.

Note the federal miminum wage I'm the USA is $7.25/hr.

helinues:
How much do you think would be reasonable and considerable enough to be the minimum basic wage in Nigeria?

Blue3k:
I don't know or care. That conversation is between employee and employer. If I have to guess 80k-100k 🤷🏿.

helinues:
That's where the problem lies. Most people are more concerned about Labour's minimum wage proposal without considering other sectors.

What's the population of all the government workers compared to those who worked in private sectors. Even the said government workers are mostly ghost workers

Blue3k:
Oh well they will learn their lessons eventually 🤷🏿 when the are not hired sacked. Employers can only justify paying you if you're profitable in the private sector. The public sector will take your tax naira. Until the Federal government wises up to the shake down or gets inflation under control they will have this fight every decade.

helinues:
https://www.nairaland.com/8038722/current-education-system-modern-day

helinues:
You need to get a degree, after degree, master, PhD, HHC, NNPC while wasting years away working for those who designed the same education system.