Wage: Labour will not sign agreement less than N30,000 - Ajaero

- Organised labour says it would never sign any agreement with the FG on new national minimum wage which is less than N30, 000

- Joe Ajaero, a labour leader who disclosed this said N24, 000 can never be the new minimum wage for workers.

- He said that the committee had concluded its meeting on the new wage and labour was expecting the government to invite them to sign an agreement

A labour leader, Mr Joe Ajaero, on Tuesday, October 16, said that the organised labour would never sign any agreement with the federal government on new national minimum wage which is less than N30, 000.

”N24, 000 can never be the new minimum wage for workers. If the government pays it, then it is an award,” Ajaero, president, United Labour Congress (ULC), said.

Ajaero told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the tripartite committee agreed that N30, 000 would be paid at the end of its negotiation as the new minimum wage for workers.

He said it was sad that N30, 000 was adopted by the tripartite committee but the representatives of government announced N24, 000.

The labour leader said that the organised labour would stand against it and would not sign any document, which does not reflect the true deliberation by the tripartite committee.

He said that the committee had concluded its meeting on the new wage and labour was expecting the government to invite them to sign an agreement on the decision.

“No more meetings. A date has been fixed to sign an agreement on the figure agreed. On that day, if the amount is not what the tripartite committee agreed, the organised labour will not sign,” he said.

NAN recalls that on Nov. 27, 2017, President Muhammadu Buhari, approved the appointment of a 30-member tripartite National Minimum Wage Committee for the negotiation of a new national minimum wage for the country.

Labour collectively demanded for N65, 000 per month as the new Minimum Wage for all workers as harmonized by the organised labour.

However, after many delays on reaching an agreement on the figure for a new wage, the NLC, TUC and the ULC on Sept. 26 went on a two-day nationwide warning strike, to protest government’s delay on the wage by not allowing the committee conclude its job.

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NAIJ.com had reported that the federal government was set to announce the new minimum wage as the tripartite committee completes its assignment for onward submission to President Muhammadu Buhari.

Ayuba Wabba, Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) president, made this known while speaking with newsmen on Monday, October 8, in Abuja.

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