President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero, has said most governors of the 37-Member Tripartite Committee on Minimum Wage do not even comply with the proposed base pay structure.
Vice President Kashim Shettima
inaugurated the committee in Abuja on Tuesday.
The VP said during inauguration that the decision was aimed
at ensuring a decent living wage and in compliance with the existing National
Minimum Wage Act of 2019.
Appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today on
Tuesday, Ajaero said, ”Most of the governors in the minimum wage committee are
those who are not paying minimum wage or paying them in breaches.”
”The governors who are in full compliance with the minimum
wage are not adequately represented, so whatever made the Federal Government
bring in those who are not compliant or compliant in breaches to form the bulk
of the membership of the minimum wage committee from the state government will
unfold with time,” he said.
Former President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Minimum Wage
Act of 2019 into law after the National Assembly amended the National Minimum
Wage Act in 2017 which made it compulsory to review workers’ remuneration every
five years.
The NLC President was pressed to mention some states that
are not complying to the act.
He said, “A state like Zamfara, I don’t know how much Borno
and Bauchi are paying, there is a minimum wage law which criminalises
non-compliance.”
”And the Nigerian state has not tried to enforce these laws,
others are just enforcing them in breaches. Take Anambra State for instance,
Anambra State pays N30,000 for the least paid. I challenge anybody from Anambra
to prove that even a permanent secretary is earning up to N170,000 or
N180,000,” he said.
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