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Joe Ajaero, president of the Nigeria Labour Congress , says the federal government’s announcement of a pay rise for civil servants is mischievous.a pay rise of between 25 and 35 percent for civil servants across various consolidated salary structures.
“We should be in the regime of new minimum wage as of today. Discussions were supposed to have been concluded,” Ajaero said.“The federal government through the national assembly legislated on it. But we saw that the discussion entered voice mail because the federal government refused to reconvene the meeting that was adjourned.
“Living wage is such that will, at least keep you alive. It is not a wage that will make you poor and poorer. It is not a wage that will make you borrow to go to work. It is not a wage that will lead you to be in the hospital everyday because of malnutrition. For that living wage, we have tried to look at N615,000,” he added.
“We looked at food for a family of six, that is about N9,000 in a day. For 30 days, that is about N270,000. Look at medical, N50,000 provided there will be no surgery or whatever.“For clothing, we looked at N20,000. For education, N50,000. I don’t know for those who tried to put their children in private school, they will not be able to cope with this amount. We also have sanitation of N10,000.
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