The organised labour on Thursday called on the Federal Government to avoid distortion and overlap in the implementation of the new minimum wage by meeting with the Joint National Public Service Negotiation Council to generate a fresh salary table so that all civil servants could benefit from the increase.
On Wednesday, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Ayuba Wabba, in a speech he read on behalf of organised labour in the country during the May Day celebration, called for immediate implementation of the new minimum wage, stating that a lot of time was already wasted during negotiation with government.
In a statement signed by the chairman of the Trade Union Side of the JNPSNC, Abdrafiu Adeniji, and the secretary, Alade Lawal, TUS said a major error was committed in 2011 when minimum wage was increased to N18,000. It urged government to avoid creating crisis in the public service through improper implementation of the new minimum wage.
The statement said, “The normal practice is that once a new minimum wage is fixed, a fresh salary table is generated so that employees in all salary grade levels will benefit from the new emoluments. This is the standard practice all over the world and Nigeria should not be an exception. Read more