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Minimum Wage: Negotiations On Consequential Adjustment Ongoing – NLC President

The National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, has said that negotiations between the organized labour and the Technical Committee on Consequential Adjustment of the new minimum wage are still ongoing.

Speaking on the rumour making the arounds that the labour unions have stalled the implementation of the new minimum wage, Ayuba Wabba said that though the NLC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) are not directly involved in the negotiations, they are ready to step in if any disagreement occurred.

“In spite of the fact that the NLC and TUC are not directly involved during the process of consequential adjustment, the process is ongoing; because I read in the papers of how people were saying it had stopped.

“The report that I read from the Joint Negotiating Council is that they are meeting, and if there is any stalemate we will be informed and will step in to assist and all the details of their discussions have been made public.’’

Wabba said that the delay on the issue was not caused by the NLC.

“For anybody on that table to come and say that labour is the one delaying the process he/she is not saying the obvious.

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“This is because I learnt that the person that made the statement is the chairman of the technical committee; so clearly speaking, I think it is not in good faith.

“I think also that workers are becoming very concerned, including us because the process must actually have an end where workers will benefit.

“How can a worker or unions that are at the receiving end be the ones delaying the process.

“For us as a union we wanted this money to be in workers pockets long before now.’’

It would be recalled that the new minimum wage bill was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari in April.

However, deliberations were ongoing as the issue of relativity/consequential adjustment of salaries still persisted.

The Federal Government had on May 14 inaugurated the relativity/Consequential Adjustment Committee which in turn set up a Technical Sub-Committee to work out the template for the adjustment of salaries of Public Service Employees.

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