The Chairman of the Kwara State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Aliyu Issa-Ore has confirmed that the state workers will join the nationwide rally slated for Wednesday by Labour Unions against a bill in the National Assembly to remove minimum wage from the exclusive list.
Ore said his chapter has been mobilizing his members who will converge at the NLC Labour House tomorrow morning in compliance with the national body’s directive.
“We are coming out tomorrow to join the rest of Nigerian workers in protest against the bill sponsored in the national assembly requesting the removal of minimum wage from the exclusive list. It is certain” He said.
The NLC has recently come tough on states in the federation who have not fully implemented the minimum wage. In a communiqué issued at the end of its National Executive Council (NEC), penultimate week, the union directed workers in all the states where the national minimum wage of N30, 000 is yet to be paid to immediately proceed on strike.
The government of Kwara State in partial compliance with national minimum wage signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019, has commenced payment to junior workers in the state, while the consequential adjustments for senior officers on grade level 7 and above are still under discussion between labour and the state government.
The latest stance on the bill before the National Assembly is another of its face-off with government as it warned the National Assembly to stop playing politics with the N30,000 minimum wage.
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