Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja
The Director General of Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Dr. Salihu Lukman, has said that moving the minimum wage from the exclusive legislative list to the concurrent list was not in contravention of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention as claimed by leadership of Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC).
The labour movement had on Wednesday during its one-day nationwide protest argued that the National Minimum Wage as embedded in the constitution was an internationally recognised standard which had the endorsement of the United Nations, through its agency, International Labour Organisation (ILO).
The labour union also said that the planned decentralisation of the minimum wage structure was a declaration of war on the Nigerian workers.
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The Director-General of the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF), Salihu Lukman has berated the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) for protesting against the decentralization of minimum wage.
Lukman in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday said the campaign for the retention of the minimum wage in the exclusive legislative list under the 1999 Nigerian Constitution as amended, is being handled by the leadership of organised labour, especially Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) based on deliberate distortions of facts.
According to him, one of the claims is that moving minimum wage from the exclusive legislative list to the concurrent list in the 1999 Nigerian constitution will contravene provisions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention, which Nigeria is a signatory.
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Director-General of the Forum of All Progressives Congress governors, Salihu Lukman has faulted the argument of the organised labour that nations who were signatory to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention, have minimum wage on their exclusive legislative list.
The face-off between the government and organised labour was a sequel to a bill sponsored by a member of the House of Representatives, representing Sabon Gari Federal Constituency of Kaduna State, Honourable Mohammed Garba Datti, seeking to move minimum wage from the Exclusive Legislative List to the Concurrent Legislative List in the 1999 Constitution in line with recommendations of the report of the All Progressives Congress APC.