Organised labour has raised
doubts over federal government’s commitment to the implementation of the new
N30,000 minimum wage.
President of Trade Union
Congress, TUC, Quadri Olaleye, threatened that organised labour may be forced
to take industrial action over the delay in the payment of the new minimum
wage.
Speaking to reporters in Lagos
yesterday, Olaleye said workers had thought that consequential adjustment on
the minimum wage would be negotiated openly.
“From the look of things, it
appears the Federal Government is not committed to implementing the new minimum
wage arrangement going by the way its representatives in the committee, set up
to negotiate the consequential adjustment arising from the new minimum wage,
are handling the negotiation,” Olaleye said.
He also said that the organised
labour has been considerate by lowering its initial demand for increasing the
salaries of officers on Grade Level (GL) 07 to 17 by 66.66% as the rate at
which the minimum wage was increased but the FG side is only offering 9.5% for
GL 07 to 14 officers and 5% for those on GL 15 to 17.
He said: “As it stands now, we
may be forced to go to the trenches.
“We sincerely hope that the
government will act fast and direct its representatives to return to the
negotiation table with a more realistic mandate that will be beneficial to
workers who have had to wait for almost a decade to get something meaningful
added to their emoluments.”
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I fell pain in this matter since many months now noting has happened. This very unfortunate to a country like Nigeria, pls I beg federal govt to hasting ear and act fast to labour demand to enable her move forward
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