Story by Iyiola Ayomide
President of the Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC) Comrade Joe Ajaero, has advocated the need for periodic review of minimum wages for workers on account of the galloping inflation in the country.
He said this on Thursday, in Abuja,at a one- day media parley organised by the Labour Correspondent Association of Nigeria, with the theme: “Government and Labour Relations in the Last One Year: Discussions on Key Labour, Employment and Productivity Issues, Success and Projections
He lamented that in few years,the N70,000 being sought for Nigerian workers may not be able to afford ordinary tissue paper.
He picked holes in the haphazard implementation of the national minimum wage policy, especially on the part of some state governments.
Ajaero,who singled out Cross River and Zamfara States, complained that the two states have not even constituted a local implementation committee to deliberate on the new wage policy.
Ajaero ordered that executives of labour unions in such states where the government have been recalcitrant in implementing the new wage policy are at liberty to go on strike to press home their demands.
He added:”MIninum wage has to be reviewed periodically because the way things are going in this country, in five years time N70,000 may not be able to buy tissue paper”
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