The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday directed its members to be ready to take appropriate actions should the National Assembly fail to do the needful by affirming N30,000 as the new national minimum wage at state and federal levels.
It
said the National Assembly should uphold the recommendation of the
tripartite committee which specified N30,000 as the new national minimum
wage.
President
of the congress, Comrade Ayuba Wabba,told reporters at the end of an emergency
meeting of the Central Working Committee of the congress yesterday that
the International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions guiding
negotiations on minimum wage do not allow one party to change the figures
agreed upon after negotiations.
The
process of changing the figure agreed upon after negotiations, he said, must
follow the same process of negotiations in accordance with international best
practices and in accordance with ILO conventions.
He
insisted that even the N30,000 agreed to by the tripartite committee was a
compromise position for which labour should be commended as it is still less
than 100 dollars if converted.
Wabba
said: “This is the resolution that has just been adopted by a meeting of the
Central Working Committee of the Nigeria Labour Congress. The meeting
deliberated on a one-item agenda which is the issue of the transmission of the
national minimum wage bill to the National Assembly.
“The
meeting reviewed the whole situation, including the fact that what was agreed
at the tripartite negotiation meeting of the review of the minimum wage was
N30,000. It is actually out of place and out of procedure for that figure to be
reduced to N27,000. “
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