Minimum wage: Labour's threat sends governors to drawing board

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Several state governors have launched top level efforts to stave off the strike brewing over the delay in implementing the new minimum wage.

Governors Ben Ayade , Yahya Bello , and AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq have commenced negotiations with labour in their states to ensure that the stalemate is resolved before the January 31 ultimatum issued by the Nigeria Labour Congress for the payment of the minimum wage in all the states.

He said: “The new minimum wage requires financial engineering. We are working hard and I can assure you that the governor is fully committed to paying the minimum wage”.Kwara also gets minimum wage negotiating committee It was learnt that the committee inaugurated by the government and chaired by the Secretary to the State government, Mr Chiedu Ebie, has continued negotiations with the union despite lingering issues of the proper computations of basic salary.

Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal announced this on Thursday night at the signing and submission of the report by the state committee on the implementation of the new minimum wage and consequential adjustments. Oyebode said discussion was still ongoing between the government and labour team to work out modalities for the implementation of the new minimum wage.

But he wants them to work hard to improve the state’s Internally Generated Revenue to make it easier for him.called the state Chairman of NLC, Jerry Nnubia to react on the matter, he refused to pick the phone.But Information and Public Enlightenment Commissioner, C-Don Adinuba, said yesterday that the state government was ready to commence payment of the new minimum wage this month.The Chairman of the Enugu State Joint Public’s Service Negotiating Council, Mr.

 

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