worsened as many states had yet to start the payment of N30,000 minimum wage 11 months after the deadline given by the Nigeria Labour Congress for the conclusion of negotiations.
But this dropped to N1.121tn in the first half of 2020, indicating a crash of N181bn or 9.45 per cent when compared to the preceding half-year revenue generation of the states. AbdulRazaq stated that Kwara recorded a deficit of N200m in the November salaries of local government workers, adding that Kogi borrowed N500m for the same purpose, while Niger was able to pay 70 per cent.
“In Kwara, we have not implemented the new minimum wage of N30,000 per month; we are still on N18,000, but we are negotiating as N30,000 is the law and we will implement the law early in the new year. He said many states were not paying the full minimum wage, while some others were paying in percentages, grade levels and so on.He stated, “In some states, the state governments have taken over the finances of the local governments, which should not be the case.
The state Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Issa Ore; and the Chairman, state Joint Negotiating Council, Salihu Sulaiman, told one of our correspondents in Ilorin on Thursday that the labour leaders and the government had yet to sign the minimum wage agreement. Currently, only workers on grade levels 1 to 6 have been enjoying the minimum wage since October last year.
“Negotiations resumed about three weeks ago. The government and labour representatives will meet on Friday morning.”In Gombe State, the implementation of the minimum wage, which was suspended following the outbreak of COVID-19 in March, has not resumed. Bulama stated that the state government had constituted two committees currently verifying the local government employees and teachers, adding that the full implementation of the minimum wage for the affected workers would commence when the verification was concluded.Similarly, the Cross River State Government has not started implementing the minimum wage.
An official of the NLC in the state, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The PUNCH on Thursday that the government had yet to refund the deductions from workers’ salaries for three months after it started the implementation of the minimum wage in December 2019.
The most silent & corrupt NLC in history.
I keep wondering why a man with a sound mind wants to borrow from pension fund, looting from other funds is no longer enough for them.
Pension that they are not paying be4