The House of Representatives
Committee on Labour, Employment and Productivity has reached a decision on a
new minimum wage bill.
The House said on Thursday that
the National Assembly would give the bill accelerated hearing and passage.
This was disclosed by the
Chairman of the committee, Ezenwa Onyewuchi, in a chat with the News Agency of
Nigeria, NAN in Abuja.
President Muhammadu Buhari had,
on November 27, 2017, set up a 30-man National Minimum Wage Committee headed by
former Head of Service of the Federation, Ms. Amal Pepple.
The committee had recommended a
N30,000 minimum wage for workers but the governors, who argued that they were
not carried along, insisted that it would be impossible for them to implement
the sum without reducing their workforce.
Onyewuchi, who represents Owerri
Municipal/North/West Federal Constituency of Imo State, has now assured that
when the minimum wage amendment bill is sent to them by President Buhari, the
National Assembly would do the needful.
”For us, we have to wait here
until the president sends in the amendment bill, it will go through the
rudiment of lawmaking; pass through the committees at various levels.
”We know how important it is; we
know that the workers are desirous of a wage increase, especially the minimum
wage, which for me as a committee chairman, I consider it important,” he said.
The lawmaker said although the
bill would not evade the normal legislative scrutiny, he assured that it would
be given an expeditious passage.
“And for me, we want a living
wage, a wage the workers can live on.
“And essentially, I am in support
of it because if you look at it on the last May Day, I was the person that
moved the motion on the floor of the House on this same issue of wage increase
and minimum wage adjustment.
“So, I think for me, there is
need to take a second look at the minimum wage and when, it is sent to us, we
will give it an expeditious passage,” he said.
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