Ayuba Wabba, President of the
Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), has said they will oppose any move to tamper
with legitimately earned salaries of workers in the guise of implementing the
new minimum wage.
Wabba’s warning followed
President Muhammadu Buhari’s announcement, that workers who presently earn
N30,000, would also have their salaries reviewed in accordance with the new
minimum wage.
Speaking with The Nation, Wabba
rejected Buhari’s position, saying that there was no basis for such move.
“That is not the principle behind
the minimum wage and the technical committee is simply a government committee.
It is their internal mechanism. I am not so sure that minimum wage is about
reducing workers’ wages.
“If they have earned their
salaries legitimately, there is no way the minimum wage can reduce it. In fact,
the minimum wage is about empowering workers and improving on what they
collect. I don’t think that decision is right because every salary a worker
earns is legitimately negotiated on the table.
“I think what they need to do is
to reduce salaries of political office holders, those that are collecting
salaries that are not appropriated or salaries that are humongous. We know the
wastages are the security votes and the high cost of governance,” Wabba stated.
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