The organised labour on Thursday
said that the Federal Government has latest Dec. 31 to send the tripartite
committee report on N30,000 minimum wage to the National Assembly.
According to NAN, the three
labour centres, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC)
and the United Labour Congress (ULC) took the decision after a joint meeting in
Lagos.
The organised labour gave the
ultimatum following President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement that a “high powered
technical committee” would be set up to device ways to ensure that its
implementation did not lead to an increase in the level of borrowing.
The NLC President, Mr Ayuba
Wabba, who address newsmen after the meeting, said that setting up a technical
committee could not be a condition for passing the minimum wage report to the
National Assembly.
Accoridng to Wabba, the organised
labour cannot guarantee industrial peace and harmony in the country if the wage
report was not passed for implementation on or before Dec. 31.
“We reject in its entirety the
plan to set up another `high powered technical committee’ on the minimum wage.
It is diversionary and a delay tactics.
“The national minimum wage
committee was both technical and all-encompassing in its compositions and plan
to set up a technical committee is alien to the tripartite process.
“It is also alien to the
International Labour Organisations’ conventions on national minimum wage
setting mechanism,’’ he said.
The labour leader said that
issues on payment of minimum wage was a law that was universal, citing that
other African countries like, Kenya, Ghana and South Africa had increased their
minimum wage this year.
“If you increase minimum wage,
you are increasing the purchasing power of the economy which will help to
reduce inflation rather than increase it,’’ Wabba said.
Wabba urged workers to be
vigilant and prepare to campaign and vote against candidates and politicians
who are not willing to implement the new minimum wage.
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