EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Nigerian Labour Congress has clarified its stance on the proposed N500,000 minimum wage, stating that it has not officially adopted a position regarding the amount to be presented to the tripartite committee on the new minimum wage for workers.
In an interview with Punch in Yola, Adamawa State, NLC President Joe Ajaero emphasized that the figures of N500,000 and N700,000 being suggested as the new minimum wage are not recognized by the NLC.
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Ajaero made these remarks on the sidelines of the North-East zonal public hearing conducted by the tripartite committee on national wage.
According to him, all the figures flying around should be disregarded because the NLC as a body had yet to adopt a common presentation on the new minimum wage.
He said, “The N500,000, N700,000 you are hearing are being collated at the level of the states. In Lagos and other places, I think they are about N700,000 while in other places they are talking about N500,000 which are inputs collated from geopolitical zones.
“But the NLC secretariat has not made any presentation, these minimum figures are what is coming from the states. When we collate them then we’ll do a central presentation based on the raw materials we are getting from states.
“It (minimum wage) has to be relative to the cost of living in those states. You will agree with me that rent here is not as that in Abuja, and not the same thing as in Lagos. So relatively speaking you won’t have a straitjacket-like presentation by Labour in all the states.”
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On his part, the Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association, Adamawa State, Dr Solomon Bulus, said the Nigerian Medical and Dental Council backed the implementation of the N500,000 new minimum wage because it would drive down the hardship being experienced nationally.
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