Federal Government of Nigeria has Decided on New Minimum Wage

Federal Government of Nigeria has Decided on New Minimum Wage

The Federal Government will take a last position on the new national minimum wage on Monday after a broadened gathering of every key partner including state governors, the Minister of Labor and Employment, Chris Ngige, has said.

Ngige said yesterday that the no-work, no-pay work approach was started during the tenure of previous president Olusegun Obasanjo. The Federal Executive Council (FEC) had penultimate Wednesday endorsed the usage of the white paper on the arrangement.

Ngige disclosed to State House correspondents yesterday that the arrangement was passed by the National Assembly in 2004 and that Obasanjo consented to it.

"The issue of no-work, no-pay is anything but another thing, it is a current law gone by the National Assembly in 2004 and consented to by Obasanjo.

The law secures the employers and employee. We are simply re-resounding it. It is nothing correctional or new, it has been around since," he said.

After the gathering, he said President Muhammadu Buhari would transmit a bill on the new national minimum wage to the National Assembly for thought and entry. He said the National Assembly would arrange an open hearing on the bill to enable the general population opinion to the draft law.