The Nigeria Labour Congress has called on the ruling All Progressives
Congress and opposition Peoples Democratic Party to call their
governors to order for some of the governors’ insistence on reducing the
minimum wage.
A statement by the president of the NLC, Ayuba Wabba, said the
governors’ insistence on either abolishing the N18,000 minimum wage or
retrench workers was invitation to crisis.
“The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) wishes to categorically affirm
that the path our governors are heading can only lead to one outcome: a
head-on collision with Nigerian workers and Nigerian people!
“In apparent reaction to our statement that the threat by the
Nigerian Governors’ Forum to jettison the N18, 000 National Minimum Wage
would amount to a declaration of war against the working people of our
country, Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State, and chairman of the
Governors’ Forum, has restated the determination of himself and his
colleagues to go ahead with the reduction of the national minimum wage
or in the alternative embark on massive retrenchment of workers.
“By his reaction, the congress is convinced that Governor Yari is
still holding on to his earlier argument that due to the fall in the
price of crude oil at the international market, state governments are no
longer in the position to pay the legal minimum wage to their workers.
“In case Governor Yari and his colleagues, most of whom are fresh in
their positions, might not be aware, the principle behind minimum wage
is that it is the minimum salary a worker is envisaged to earn to
sustain himself or herself and his or her legal or legitimate
dependents, over a daily or monthly period.
SOURCE PREMIUM TIMES
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