President Muhammadu Buhari has approved nominations into the
committee that will work on a new minimum wage for workers, Labour and
Employment Chris Ngige disclosed yesterday.
Addressing State House reporters after meeting with Buhari
at the Presidential Villa, Ngige did not disclose the membership of the
committee which, he said, would soon be inaugurated.
The minister said the committee was a tripartite panel
comprising representatives of the federal and state governments as well as the
private sector. Ngige stressed that the panel would decide on the feasibility
of the N56, 000 minimum wage being demanded by workers.
‘We will take a
consensus date with the governors because it is a tripartite committee
involving federal, states and the private sector: NECA , MAN, NACCIMA, SMEs. “The NLC, TUC and their affiliates have done
their nominations. What we are now trying to finetune is the date for
inauguration,” the minister said.
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