Vanguard
3 March 2011
THE struggle for the implementation of N18,000 new minimum wage, yesterday, took frightening dimension as 1,992 leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in all parts of the country and all sectors of the nation's economy, resolved that Labour and its allies in the civil society groups would make the conduct of April elections impossible without the implementation of the new minimum wage by all tiers of government.
This came as the House of Representatives, yesterday, passed the Bill for an Act to amend the National Minimum Wage Act to compel employers of labour to pay every employee not less than N18, 000 per month.
Debating the NLC Secretariat's report on the minimum wage as well as reacting to statement credited to the Chairman of Governors' Forum, Dr. Bukola Saraki, of Kwara State that many state governments would not be able to pay the new wage, delegates to the ongoing 10th NLC national congress, vowed to frustrate any attempt to hold the April polls without implementation of the new wage.
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