New minimum wage not ready in April — Labour
The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has kicked against the non-completion of negotiations over a new minimum wage.
The body has now urged the Federal Government to hasten action on that.
The TUC President, Comrade Festus Osifo, stated this while briefing journalists after the National Executive Council, NEC.
Osifo ruled out the possibility of having a new minimum wage in place before the end of May.
TUC, also lamented that some states in the Niger Delta region that collect huge sums of money from the Federation Account, have not paid neither the wage awards nor palliatives to their workers, accusing Delta, Imo, Benue as the worst culprits.
Besides, TUC, noted with dismay that the Federal Government has not paid federal workers the wage award for the months of March and April this year and called for the immediate payment of the wage award to cushion the economic hardship.
He said, “The NEC in session discussed the issues of minimum wage and that government has to do everything possible to ensure that this is fast tracked because the only way you can inflate your economy is when you empower the working class. The only way you can inflate your economy is when people have money to purchase goods in the supermarket, when people have money to go to the regular market to purchase items. If there is no money to purchase these items, if the purchasing power parity is relatively low, what is going to happen?
So, we demand that the committee orf minimum wage, should hasten their activities so that a new minimum wage will be put in place. This is the only way that the economy will be re inflated.”
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