New minimum wage: 36 state governors back NLC, TUC, demand of 615,000? NGF reacts

• The organised labour has received caller backing successful the quest for a caller minimum wage for civilian servants successful Nigeria
• While the NLC and the TUC person continued to support their request for N615,000 arsenic a caller wage, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum has promised to amended the payment of workers successful their respective states
• The Chairman of the NGF and Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, confirmed this improvement via a connection made disposable to journalists

Legit.ng journalist Esther Odili has implicit 2 years of acquisition covering governmental parties and movements.

On Thursday, May 2, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), assured the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC), and the workers of an improved and sustainable minimum wage.

NLC, TUC get caller enactment from govs

Earlier this year, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu constituted a tripartite committee comprising government, labour, and backstage assemblage representatives to measure the N30,000 minimum wage implemented during erstwhile President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure.

But recently, the 2 superior labour organisations, the NLC and the TUC presented a proposal of N615,000 minimum wage to the committee.

Despite the May Day celebrations connected Wednesday, May 2, the authorities refrained from announcing a caller minimum wage, citing its reluctance to judge labour’s proposal.

The NGF, successful a communique issued by its president and Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara state, connected Thursday, May 2, stated that the 37-member tripartite committee tasked with reviewing the nationalist minimum wage is inactive successful consultations and has not completed its work.

The governors’ forum stated that it is assessing each authorities government’s fiscal capableness and the imaginable effects of antithetic proposals to find an enhanced minimum wage that can beryllium feasibly sustained by the states.

The communique work successful part:

“The Forum celebrates with workers crossed the state for their dedication to work and patience, arsenic we enactment with the Federal Government, labour, organised backstage assemblage and applicable stakeholders successful arriving astatine an implementable nationalist minimum wage.“As members of the committee, we are reviewing our idiosyncratic fiscal abstraction arsenic authorities governments and the consequential interaction of assorted recommendations, to get astatine an improved minimum wage we tin wage sustainably. We stay committed to the process and committedness that amended wages volition beryllium the invariable result of ongoing negotiations.”

State governors who person accrued workers' salaries

Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that immoderate authorities governors successful Nigeria person accrued the salaries of civilian servants successful their states owed to the precocious outgo of living.

Civil servants crossed the federation person been clamouring for an summation successful their wages to bespeak the existent economical concern successful the state and immoderate person gotten their request attended to.

Three Nigerian authorities governors person responded to workers’ demands and accrued their salaries.

Source: Legit.ng