The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has rejected the plan by President Muhammadu Buhari to set up technical Committee to look into the already agreed N30,000 New Minimum Wage, in order to ensure hitch-free implementation.
The NLC according to Dailypost, was reacting to President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement that a “high powered technical committee” would be set up to look into the ability of state governments to pay the already agreed minimum wage to avoid job loss.
Buhari had made the disclosure at the presentation of 2019 Appropriation Bill to the National Assembly in Abuja on Wednesday. He had said
“To avoid a system crisis on the Federal Government and states, it is important to device ways to ensure that its implementation does not lead to an increase in the level of borrowing.
“I am, accordingly, setting up a high powered technical committee to advice on ways of funding an increase in the minimum wage and attendant wage adjustments without having to resort to additional borrowing.
“The work of the committee will be the basis of finance bill which will be submitted to the National Assembly alongside the minimum wage bill,” Buhari said.
Reacting to the President's statement, the President of NLC, Ayuba Wabba to NAN that no Technical Committee would look into the issue of N30,000 minimum wage.
“We cannot use any technical committee to look into the agreed minimum wage. The President promised to pass the report to lawmakers a week after it was presented to him.
“Once the tripartite committee has met and agreed on an amount, no other committee can meet on the same issue,’’ he added.
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