Doctors Reject N35,000 Minimum Wage

Doctors in Lagos State, under the aegis of Medical Guild, have rejected the new minimum wage of N35,000 implemented by the Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration.

Dr Babajide Saheed, Chairman of the Guild, said doctors have rejected the new minimum wage as it is below the expectations of civil servants.

Saheed made the doctors’ decision known on Monday at a media briefing on the Scientific Conference scheduled to hold on Dec. 3 and 4 in Lagos.

Saheed said that not only was the new minimum wage unacceptable, the Guild was not part of the negotiations which was communicated to the government, adding that it was still awaiting a response.

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“You cannot be talking about our salary when we are not there; and when workers started receiving their salaries over the weekend, they were disappointed and unhappy.

“Not only the doctors, generally, all the civil servants, because the increment was unimaginable and short of expectations.

“The problem we have identified is high taxation.

“No matter the amount of increment in the minimum wage, which makes the gross high, but the take home after tax reductions is peanuts.

“Government should look at that issue and let workers have the benefits of the new minimum wage, and we hope that the state government will listen,” he said.