The Minister of Labour and Employment,
Senator Chris Ngige, on Friday said President Muhammadu Buhari would
soon approve the setting up of a 29- man committee to engage organised
Labour in negotiating a new national minimum wage for workers in the
country.
The minister added that the report of the National Minimum Wage
Review Committee soon to be set up by the President would still be
subjected to the scrutiny of the National Assembly before it would be
implemented by government.
Organised Labour comprising the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC)
and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) had proposed a N56,000 new
national minimum wage to the government.
The minister, who spoke with journalists in his office after a
meeting of the technical committee, said the minimum wage review
committee was yet to be set up, adding that the technical committee set
up in June 2016 to work out modalities for review of the minimum wage
and other palliatives would soon submit its report to the main
committee.
Ngige said in accordance with the provisions of the 1999 Constitution
as amended, it was within the ambit of the National Assembly to amend
the minimum wage act since all national minimum wage issues are in the
exclusive legislative list.
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