N30,000 minimum wage a joke – Oshiomhole

Edo North Senator, Adams Oshiomhole has described the existent N30,000 minimum wage arsenic a joke.

Oshiomhole said the wage bundle of workers should summation successful the look of the existent world with prices of things skyrocketing.

Speaking connected Channels Televison’s Politics Today, the lawmaker said the Nigerian workers and the Federal Government, and authorities governments person agreed connected the request to summation the minimum wage.

He said, “I deliberation determination is immoderate unanimity betwixt employers, including backstage employers and evidently the Federal Government and I judge authorities governments that the existent minimum wage of 30,000 is simply a joke.

“There is simply a designation of the information that the purchasing powerfulness of the workers crossed the committee including directors, imperishable secretaries not to speech of those connected levels 1 to four, has dropped radically and you request to beef it up.

“In a marketplace economy, determination are adjacent countries wherever wages are indexed to the value of inflation. So, I deliberation determination is simply a shared committedness that wages should spell up and spell up radically arsenic overmuch arsenic prices person skyrocketed,” helium said.

Recall that the national authorities had assured the Nigerian workers that the caller minimum wage volition instrumentality effect from May 1, 2024.

This followed the Federal Government’s support of 25 per cent and 35 per cent wage increments for the remaining six consolidated wage structures