NLC vows to ensure new minimum wage is implemented

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has vowed that it would ensure that the new national minimum wage is implemented to the letter.

It would be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari recently signed the new Minimum Wage Bill into law, upping the the wage from N18,000 to N30, 000.

The figure, arrived at after much hassling, especially between state governors and organised labour, however remain controversial after the President had accented his signature, as some state governments are yet to come to terms with it.

NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, on Wednesday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, however said the union would every thing within its powers to ensure full implementation.

Wabba, represented by the Oyo State Chairman of NLC, Comrade Waheed Olojede, made the vow at the launching of the Oyo State Pensioners’ House in Ibadan.

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Wabba, who described many leaders of government across all tiers as enemies of the workers, vowed that there would be no “retreat, no surrender”.

“We thank God that the struggle for a new wage which began in 2011, was finally laid to rest with the assent of President Muhammadu Buhari last Thursday. The assent has made it a law, therefore making it incumbent on all employers of labour to pay every Nigerian worker N30, 000 as minimum wage.

“Unfortunately, leaders of governments at all tiers are enemies of workers. They never at anytime want to succumb to the provision of the law, when it comes to the right and welfare of the workers. But having secured N30,000, we will make sure all governors implement it 100 per cent.

“The process has the inclusion and full participation of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum. We will go ahead in prosecuting 100 per cent of the new pay to the Nigerian workers,” Wabba said.

 

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