Minister of Labour and Employment,
Senator Chris Ngige, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari will 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 also hinted that the
report of the National Minimum Wage Review Committee soon to be set up by the
President will be subjected to scrutiny by the National Assembly before it is
implemented by government.
Organised Labour, made up of the Trade
Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, and the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has
submitted a N56,000 new national minimum wage request to the government.
The minister, who spoke with newsmen
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 the review and palliatives would
soon submit its report to the main committee.
The Minister 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 on the exclusive legislative list.
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