The
Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has disclosed that only five states have
started implementing the new national minimum wage, eight months after
passage into law by President Muhammadu Buhari.
In a communiqué issued at the end of its one-day stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja, the labour union listed Lagos, Kaduna, Kebbi, Adamawa and Jigawa states as those paying their workers the new salary package.
The
communiqué was signed by the NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, General
Secretary, Emmanuel Ugboaja, and National Chairperson, Joint National
Public Service Negotiating Council (Trade Union), Abdulrafiu A. Adeniji.
The
NLC listed the states that are yet to set up committees, to include:
Bauchi, Yobe, Rivers, Benue, Gombe, Kwara, Imo, Osun, Ekiti, Oyo,
Anambra, Taraba, Cross River, Ogun, Enugu, Nasarawa, Plateau, Kogi and
Delta.
The communique reads: “Each state should immediately
convoke an emergency executive council meeting and state congress of all
workers to brief them on the outcome of the stakeholders’ meeting on
the new national minimum wage implementation;
“States that are
still on the discussion table (Category 2) should expedite discussions
to conclude the negotiations on or before December 31, 2019;
“States
which have not commenced discussion should quickly constitute a
negotiating committee and expeditiously conclude discussions on salary
adjustment consequent on the new national minimum wage on or before
December 31, 2019.
“In the event that any state fails to comply
with these resolutions on or before December 31, 2019, organised labour
will not guarantee industrial harmony in such state.”
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