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Ortom. Photo: Twitter/ GovSamuelOrtomKogi, Abia, Imo and Benue are the states yet to show any sign of willingness to begin implementation of the national minimum wage in their states, a document obtained by The Guardian has revealed.
The list, which is in the custody of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), highlights the implementation stages of the national wage in all the states of the federation. x
Deputy General Secretary of NLC, Bello Ismail, told The Guardian in Abuja that while most states are paying workers’ salaries, what is paid is not in tandem with agreed terms with state councils.
He said: “As far as the salaries of workers are concerned, most state governments are paying. Where we have a challenge is how much of the salaries are paid.
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Workers and labour leaders during a protest against a bill on the minimum wage in Ikeja, Lagos…on Wednesday. Photo: Stanley Ogidi
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The leadership of the National Assembly will, on Tuesday next week, meet labour leaders over a bill which seeks to remove the minimum wage negotiations from the exclusive legislative list.
The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, disclosed this on Wednesday while addressing workers who marched to the National Assembly Complex in Abuja to protest the bill.
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Citing the Salary and Pensions’ Act, Imo retirees have urged Governor Hope Uzodimma to revert salary and pensions payment to the office of the Accountant General.
During a live programme yesterday in Owerri, state chairman of the Association of the Retired Permanent Secretaries, Fabian Agba, and his counterpart in the Pensioners Intervention Committee, Nigeria Union of Pensioners, Ikechukwu Ohaneje, insisted that it was wrong for the governor to have allegedly assigned payment of pensions and salaries to Government House, urging discontinuation of what they termed “selective payments.”
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), through their state chairmen, Austin Chilapku and Nkim Tangban, had issued a statement at the weekend informing Uzodimma of their eight-day warning strike, which began yesterday, over the matter.
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