On November 5 Buhari received the report of a tripartite committee he set up since last November, to fashion out a new minimum wage for workers.
President of the NLC, Ayuba Wabba, said the continued delay in acting on the agreed N30,000 minimum wage report submitted to him by the National Minimum Wage Tripartite Committee is stretching the workers’ patience to their limits.
The National Minimum Wage tripartite committee put in place by President Buhari to review the current N18,000 minimum wage had presented its report to the president two weeks ago, but the state governors said they can’t pay N30,000.
Speaking at this year’s Harmattan School of the Congress holding in Abuja, Wabba said workers are now running out of patience on the implementation of the new wage.
He described as unfortunate the position of some governors who are opposed to the N30.000 new minimum wage, “but are spending billions of dollars in the name of security votes which they can’t account for.”
According to the NLC boss, it was not true that once the Minimum wage is increased there would be an inflation.
For instance, he said in 2008, the salaries of political office holders was increased by 800 percent but it didn’t cause inflation.
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