The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has faulted governors yet to pay the new minimum wage to workers in their states.
Speaking
as a guest on Channels Television’s
Sunday Politics, he stated that any employer paying its employee below
N30,000 was doing so in contravention of the law.
“If
you read the Act well, you will see the applicability of the Act. The
applicability is that all parts of the Federation (Section II); Section III also
says N30,000 shall be paid, the operating word is shall.
“It
does not give room for picking and choosing, it is a must. The state governors
that are not paying are breaching the law of the land,” the minister said.
President
Muhammadu Buhari signed the Minimum Wage Repeal and Re-Enactment Act, 2019 into
law on April 18, 2019.
The
Act makes it compulsory for all employers of labour in the country to pay a
minimum of N30,000 to their workers and gives workers compelled to accept
salary less than the amount the right to sue their employer to recover the
balance.
It
also authorises the Minister of Labour and any person nominated or designated
by the minister to take action against such an employer on behalf of the worker
to recover the balance of the wages.
- Channelstv
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