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The United States has lambasted Nigeria over its inability to increase minimum wage for workers.


This is contained in a recent report titled, “2018 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices” published on the the Department of State website.

It said: “The legal national monthly minimum wage was 18,000 naira ($49.54). Employers with fewer than 50 employees are exempt from this minimum, and the large majority of workers were not covered.


“There was no official estimate for the poverty income level. Implementation of the minimum wage, particularly by state governments, remained sporadic despite workers’ protests and warning strikes. In general, penalties were not sufficient to deter violations.

“The law mandates a 40-hour workweek, two to four weeks of annual leave, and overtime and holiday pay, except for agricultural and domestic workers. The law does not define premium pay or overtime. The law prohibits excessive compulsory overtime for civilian government employees.

“The law establishes general health and safety provisions, some aimed specifically at young or female workers. The law requires employers to compensate injured workers and dependent survivors of workers killed in industrial accidents.


“The law provides for the protection of factory employees in hazardous situations. The law does not provide other nonfactory workers with similar protections. The law applies to legal foreign workers, but not all companies respected these laws.

“By law workers may remove themselves from situations that endangered health or safety without jeopardy to their employment, but authorities did not effectively protect employees in these situations.

“The Ministry of Labor and Employment is responsible for enforcing these standards. The Labor Ministry employs factory inspectors and labor officers, and 42 inspectors are dedicated to enforcing laws related to child labor, but its Inspectorate Department stated it did not have sufficient staff to properly monitor and enforce health and safety conditions.



“The department is tasked to inspect factories’ compliance with health and safety standards, but it was underfunded, lacked basic resources and training, and consequently did not sufficiently enforce safety regulations at most enterprises, particularly construction sites and other nonfactory work locations.

“Labor inspections mostly occurred randomly but occasionally occurred when there was suspicion, rather than actual complaints, of illegal activity. In addition the government did not enforce the law strictly. Authorities did not enforce standards in the informal sector, which included the majority of workers.”


http://dailypost.ng/2019/03/19/us-speaks-nigerias-minimum-wage-workers-condition/

Inasmuch that Nigeria has failed to live up to expectations , the US government have no right to blast a whole nation, we will deal with our problems ourselves, we don't want them pokenosing into our business like they are our colonial masters, if they had so much love for Nigeria what have they done to help out to make Nigeria better, they are the true enemies of our beloved country, look at the oil refining they help with they charge exorbitant fees just to do that, all importation from US to Nigeria has high shipping charges, if they so care about Nigeria they would reduce our imports cost from their country, every nation has problems, I believe we will get there, last time I checked America wasn't built in a day.

Buhari led APC governement do not care about the welfare of the people

It's only about themselves alone .

Jayslicky:
Inasmuch that Nigeria has failed to live up to expectations , the US government have no right to blast a whole nation, we will deal with our problems ourselves

You've been dealing with your own problem as a nation since 1960 yet the country is in a sorry state .

Nigeria needs help

Jayslicky:
Inasmuch that Nigeria has failed to live up to expectations , the US government have no right to blast a whole nation, we will deal with our problems ourselves

Who is the US fighting for ? Themselves ?

no be today something

dont know why any1 would wanna live in a country ruled by blacks

NaijaRoyalty:
You've been dealing with your own problem as a nation since 1960 yet the country is in a sorry state .

Nigeria needs help

Yes Nigeria needs help but not from the US, they always make a country worse than where they met it, take a look at Libya and Syria, Nigeria can get help from other countries but the US is a no no!!!!!

U. S. Is mad. They should first deal with that nuisance and international disaster of a President Trump first before intruding into what is not their business.