[General] Treating Labour With Dignity

Baba Sule · Oct 25, 2019

Government orders payment of new minimum wage from April 18
• Directs commission to clear arrears latest Dec 31
• New pay, personnel costs to take N4.88tr in 2020

Guardian News; Thursday 24 October 2019
Full payment of the new minimum wage to Nigerian workers takes effect from April 18, 2019.
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo issued the directive yesterday in Abuja.

The approval followed an earlier agreement between organised labour and the Federal Government on the consequential adjustments.

In the adjustments agreed upon by the labour stakeholders, workers on grade level 07 will henceforth receive a 23.2 per cent increase in their salaries, those on grade 08 will get 20 per cent increase, level 09 (19 per cent), levels 10 to 14 (16 per cent) and levels 15-17 (14 per cent).

Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, while briefing State House correspondents on the development, said FEC had already asked the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission to effect the payments, including arrears owed workers, reflecting the consequential adjustments.

By: Adamu Abuh, Terhemba Daka, John Akubo (Abuja)
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Read More At: https://guardian.ng/news/government-orders-payment-of-new-minimum-wage-from-april-18/

About time, too. Left to Ngige, this matter would keep dragging till the next handover of govt.

Baba Sule · Oct 28, 2019

Pensioners are part of minimum wage increase - FG

Vanguard News; Sunday 27 October 2019
THE Federal Government Sunday evening said that the pensioners in the country will also benefit from the new minimum wage.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige told Vanguard in Abuja that the issue of adjustment in wages is a constitutional matter under Section 173 of the Nigerian Constitution as amended.

According to him, “It is a constitutional issue. Section 173 of 1999 as amended prescribes that pensions are reviewable whenever there is a salary review in the public service or every five years whichever comes first. Therefore, now that we are doing a minimum wage consequential review or adjustment of wages in the public service, the pension will also be consequentially reviewed or adjusted. So, they will benefit, they will also smile because what is good for the goose is also good for the gander.”

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/10/pensioners-are-part-of-minimum-wage-increase-―-fg/

By: Johnbosco Agbakwuru
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Read More At: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/10/pensioners-are-part-of-minimum-wage-increase-―-fg/

Good to see Chris Ngige now on the front foot.

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