Living Wage Should Be ₦615,000-Ajaero.
President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, has described as mischievous, the salary increase of between 25% and 35% for civil servants announced on Tuesday by the Federal Government.
NLC president Joe Ajaero stated said on Wednesday as workers around the world mark the 2024 Workers’ Day.
A spokesperson for the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, Emmanuel Njoku, on Tuesday, had said the increment takes effect from January 1st, 2024.
Ajaero said the last minimum wage of N30, 000 expired on April 18 and “we should be in the regime of new minimum wage as of today. Discussions were supposed to have been concluded.”
Earlier in January, the Federal Government inaugurated a 37-man Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage with a mandate to recommend a new National Minimum Wage for the country but the recommendations of the committee have not been implemented by the government.
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