Minimum Wage: Labour directs state councils to negotiate with govs

The Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council on Tuesday directed its state councils to begin negotiations for consequential adjustment and implementation of the new minimum wage.

The chairman of the council, Simon Anchaver, at a meeting in Abuja  noted that the Labour had also given state governors December 31 as deadline for implementation of the new minimum wage.

He said the Labour had adopted the deregulated collective bargaining style to ensure that state governments also negotiate what they could afford, so long as it was not lower than the N30, 000 benchmark.

According to him, “Any governor that said he’ll not pay stands to be impeached.”

Also, the Secretary-General of the JNPSNC, Alade Lawal, said: “Negotiation with state governments starts anytime from today, we have agreed that the joint national negotiating council should send letters to state governments which will be sent tomorrow, the draft for the letter is ready. “We will first send it to our members’ email addresses in the states and then we will send the hard copy to the state governments, Negotiation starts immediately after the receipt of the letter.”

NAN reports that after the Federal Government agreed on consequential adjustments and percentage increase for workers in the Federal civil service with organised labour on Oct. 18, the joint negotiating council in each state is expected to open negotiation with its  state government.

State governments under the auspices of the Nigeria Governors Forum, had said that they would only pay according to the financial standing of their respective states.

(NAN)

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