The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has expressed disapproval over the non-implementation of the new minimum wage and consequential adjustments by some state governors. NLC President, Joe Ajaero, made this known at the 6th National Gender Conference organised by the NLC National Women’s Commission on Tuesday in Abuja.
DAILY POST reports that the conference was held under the theme: 'Accelerate Action for Gender Equality: Imperative for a new NLC Gender Policy.' According to Ajaero, the salaries of some workers are currently lower than what they were receiving before the implementation of the new N70,000 minimum wage, owing to taxation and inflation. He stated that the situation was becoming increasingly unbearable, noting that even the cost of electricity would erode the entire salary.
So what is the essence of consequential adjustment? “At the NLC level, we have negotiated for N70,000. At the level of consequential adjustment, the NLC was not contacted. So I wonder why workers should be short-changed—I do not understand,” he said. The NLC President reiterated that workers in the Federal Civil Service had yet to formally bring their complaints about salary shortfalls to the attention of the NLC leadership.
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