Jigawa State Governor, Umar Namadi, has disclosed that his government will negotiate a new minimum wage for workers in the state.
INFORMATION NIGERIA reports that the Organised Labour have been in loggerhead with the Federal Government over a new wage.
FG is proposing a sum of N62,000 offer, while Labour union is insisting on N250,000, adding that the union will beat done his proposal until government present a reasonable amount of money for the workers.
However, Governor Namadi in an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, on Friday, disclosed that whatever FG picks as a new minimum wage, his government will negotiate with workers in the state on what to pay them.
He said: “We cannot say what we can offer because it is a matter of negotiation.
“Jigawa has not agreed on any figure because we have not even started the negotiation.
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“We put up a tripartite committee including the labour and stakeholders and we work together and then we agree on a figure.”
Recall that the Nigeria Labour Congress had earlier criticized the idea that states should independently determine their minimum wage.
It was gathered that the NLC made this known in a statement issued by its Head of Information and Public Affairs, Benson Upah, on Thursday.
The statement partly reads: “This notion is not only dictatorial but also undermines the very essence as well as the model adopted for creating a national minimum wage in Nigeria.”
