Agreement On Wage Increase Needs To Be Reviewed – Labour Leaders

Labour leaders successful Ekiti State person said the statement with the national authorities indispensable beryllium considered earlier calling for a minimum wage review.

They argued that the statement betwixt the authorities and labour pursuing the support of the N70,000 minimum wage successful July 2024 stipulates that the wage volition beryllium reviewed each 3 years.

The president of the Trade Union Congress (TUC ) successful Ekiti State, Dr Omotola Farotimi, told LEADERSHIP successful Ado-Ekiti, the authorities capital, that the modular successful spot earlier present is to reappraisal minimum wage each 5 years.

The TUC brag said, “After the President Bola Tinubu-led medication approved the implementation of N70,000 caller minimum wage for Nigerian workers, the reappraisal has been reduced to each 3 years. And it has not been up to 2 years since the minimum implementation commenced, truthful we can’t commencement discussing that now.

“As labour leaders, if we privation to beryllium truthful sincere and beryllium technological astir it, we cognize that the due clip for the reappraisal of minimum wage is expected to travel up earlier agitating, and if the clip has not come, it won’t beryllium just connected our portion to commencement agitating for a caller minimum wage increment.

“Looking astatine expanding prices of goods and services generally, she said, though ostentation is high, nutrient point prices successful peculiar are present unchangeable and reducing, compared to past year”.
In his submission, the National President of the Academic Staff of Secondary Schools (ASUSS), Comrade Sola Adigun, posited that though the contiguous economical information is biting hard connected Nigerians, the labour centres are not ignorant of the statement signed connected the wage review, which is 3 years alternatively of 5 years.

Adigun, the contiguous past Chairman of the TUC successful the state, decried the nonaccomplishment of much than 10 states of the federation to instrumentality the N70000 minimum wage.

“Our mandate is similar the outcry of Oliver Twist, who ever asks for more. So if the authorities authorities tin look inward and summation the wage, we volition not accidental that.

Financially buoyant states tin spell up and summation their workers’ wages. Our bosom desires a wage summation due to the fact that we person realised that the N70000 minimum wage is insufficient to instrumentality america location again with the biting hard inflation”.