Living Wage Should Be ₦615,000, FG’s 35% Pay Increase Mischievous — Ajaero

“The announcement appears mischievous because there is no wage increment that government is announcing,” Ajaero said on Channels Television’sA spokesperson for the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission , Emmanuel Njoku, on Tuesday, had said the increment takes effect from January 1st, 2024.

“The Federal Government through the National Assembly legislated on it. But we saw that the discussion entered voice mail because the Federal Government refused to reconvene the meeting that was adjourned. Earlier in January, the Federal Government inaugurated a 37-man Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage with a mandate to recommend a new National Minimum Wage for the country but the recommendations of the committtee have not been implemented by the government.

“Let me give you a breakdown of how we arrived at that figure. We have housing and accommodation of N40,000. We asked for electricity of N20,000 — of course that was before the current tariff increase. Nobody can spend this amount currently. We have utility that is about N10,000. We looked at kerosene and gas that is about N25,000 to N35,000.“We looked at food for a family of six, that is about N9,000 in a day. For 30 days, that is about N270,000.

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