Ahead of tomorrow’s minimum wage negotiation committee meeting where a new offer is expected to be tabled by the Federal Government,
Organised Labour has asked the government to get serious, describing the earlier proposed N48,000• NLC : Government should breakdown its offer like we computed our N615,000
However, the chairman of the Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage, Bukar Goni, in a letter to the organised labour for a meeting tomorrow indicated interest that the government will shift ground and asked the organised labour to also shift ground. Also, the Primate of the Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion, Most Rev. Henry Ndukuba, has advised the Federal Government to be considerate while labour should be reasonable in determining the minimum wage for workers. He tasked both parties with ensuring that the new minimum wage reflects the inflation rates and economic reality in the country.
“Somebody said it is the minimum wage for maximum suffering. By this, it means if we demand a minimum wage that will make inflation get out of hand, we will end up in maximum suffering. What NLC and TUC are asking for is for our good, and they need our support, but other aspects need to be put into consideration,” he said.
“What are you doing to create wealth, how are you going to partner with us to create wealth instead of being wasteful? How are you going to partner with us to reduce the cost of governance? If a father comes home and says the only money he has is N1,000 and you know that the father is not wasting the money, you will manage, but if it is when the father comes and he is eating food bought from the fast food joint and it cost N10,000 and he gives N1,000 to the entire family to go and look for food...
“The problem here is that you asked someone to tighten his belt, you said there is no money, but you removed subsidy. Since they removed subsidy, FAAC has been collecting almost three times what they were collecting before subsidy. That money you are collecting, what are you doing with it? The Dr. Samuel Ogbuku-led Executive Management Committee of the Niger Delta Development Commission , has announced plans to commission 92 infrastructure projects executed at a cost of N84 billion across the nine mandate states
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