Workers’ Day: NLC Threatens Mass Action Over Minimum Wage Bill

• The bill passed second reading at the House of Representatives in February

President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Ayuba Wabba on Saturday threatened to mobilise a mass industrial action if the proposed bill which seeks to transfer minimum wage to the concurrent list is passed by the National Assembly.

Wabba made issued the threats during an event organised to mark Workers’ Day in Abuja.

He also disclosed that Kaduna workers will withdraw their services for five days in protest of the sacking of workers by the State Government.

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If the workers are not reinstated, Wabba stressed, there will be a total shutdown.

Meanwhile, Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige, who represented President Muhammadu Buhari at the event, said the new minimum wage law applies to everyone, and state governments are bound by it.

He added that he is also not in favour of moving the minimum wage from the exclusive legislative list to the concurrent list.

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The bill, which has been described by the NLC as anti-worker, is proposing that states should have the capacity to decide their own wages, based on their own socio-economic variables and circumstance.