•Joe Ajaero
President of the Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC) Comrade Joe Ajaero has criticised the shoddy implementation of the national minimum wage policy, especially on the part of some state governments.
While lamenting the inflationary trend in the country in comparison with the N70,000 minimum wage, he said there was a need for constant review because in the next few years, the prevailing amount may not be able to afford ordinary tissue paper, reports Daily Independent.
Ajaero particularly called out Cross River and Zamfara States, lamenting that they have not even constituted a local implementation committee to deliberate on the new wage policy.
The NLC President spoke today 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”.
Ajaero mandated 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.
“Minimum 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,” Ajaero stated.
