The Organised Labour has demanded
that the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC), should
expedite action on issuance of guidelines for the implementation of the N30,
000 new minimum wage.
Mr Ayuba Wabba, President,
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and Mr Bobboi Kaigama, President, Trade Union
Congress (TUC), made the call in separate interviews with the News Agency of
Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja.
They spoke after the second term
inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
According to Wabba, the issue of
the minimum wage is already a law that must be implemented and since it is now
a law, whoever fails to implement it, means he or she has violated the law.
“We are still expecting the
template by the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission for it to be
released.
“What is expected is that the
commission should issue the guidelines quickly and I am sure the committee is
working on it,” he said.
Federal Government had on May 15
inaugurated committee to negoatiate the consequential adjustment in salaries
arising from the new minimum wage.
NAN reports that the committee,
headed by the Head of Service of the federation, Mrs Wilfred Oyo-Ita, has four
weeks to complete its assignment
The NLC president also said that
the inauguration of the new administration was essentially a consolidation of
democracy in Nigeria.
He noted that it was now 20 years
of uninterrupted democracy in Nigeria, and therefore, “I think it is
consolidation time.’’
“But most importantly, I also
think that it is an avenue for Nigerians to have higher expectations for the
fact that democracy has spanned for 20 years.
“Our expectations include:
infrastructure development, job creation and most importantly, the issue of
emerging challenges of security.
“Clearly, it is an opportunity
for us to consolidate on all the gains that have been made from 1999 to date
under democratic rule.
“We must be mindful of the new
challenges, but more importantly, how we respond to the situation because
without addressing security, all other issues will still remain a challenge,”
he said.
Also Mr Bobboi Kaigama, TUC
President, said that the expectations of Nigerian workers’ as the new
administration embarks on its next four years journey are high.
“We know that the Technical
Committee is still working on the implementation agreement of the consequential
adjustment of the National Minimum Wage.
“ We are expecting that in the
next one month, a brand new circular for the increase in salaries and wages for
Nigerian workers’ would have been released,’’ he said.
He, however, called on the new
administration to ensure that they improve tremendously on their performance in
the next four years.
“Going forward, they should
improve tremendously on their performance in the next four years, we also
strongly believe that the security apparatus and infrastructure will be
adequately reviewed and restructured.
“We expect that they will improve
on our revenue generations, particularly the non-oil sector and we hope that we
will also improve on our agricultural sector.
“We also expect that
infrastructure, such as roads, the railways as well as the power sector should
be rigorously improved upon,” he said.
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