The Nigeria Labour Congress has raised a team to negotiate with the government for a new Minimum wage for workers
This follows the promise made by President Bola Tinubu in his New Year address that his administration will implement a “national living wage” this year.
The subsisting minimum wage, negotiated in 2018, expires in April 2024.
Each agreed minimum wage has a five-year lifespan. Therefore, the lifespan of the current national minimum wage will soon be over. Tinubu had said in the address: “The economic aspirations and the material well-being of the poor, the most vulnerable and the working people shall not be neglected.
“It is in this spirit that we are going to implement a new national living wage for our industrious workers this New Year. It is not only good economics to do this, it is also a morally and politically correct thing to do.”
Ajaero said labour has submitted all the names of his team and frowned at the inability of the government to constitute a committee the first week into the new year
Ajaero also thumbs down the government over its failure to pay workers the N35,000 (petrol subsidy palliative) wage award on which they paid only one month.
