Ahead of the resumption from the Sallah break next month, the two chambers of the National Assembly are under immense pressure on how to deploy legislative powers to resolve the national minimum wage tussle and ensure compliance by all stakeholders.
The pressure became more pronounced following reports that the apex legislative body was contemplating sanctions against states that fail to comply with the minimum wage law that would be enacted soon.
An executive bill is expected to be submitted to the National Assembly by President Tinubu on the new minimum wage before the end of this month, ahead of the resumption of lawmakers in the first week of July 2024.It also emerged that state governors, through their loyalists, renewed their bid to get the National Assembly to amend relevant sections of the Constitution to allow the implementation of a decentralised minimum wage.
Following the declaration by governors that states lacked financial powers to pay N60,000 as minimum wage, pressure on the National Assembly had increased for and against the use of its legislative powers to compel compliance and sanction non-compliance. Expressing regret that many stakeholders failed to fully comply with the N30,000 minimum wage, the Senate, which spoke through Adaramodu, vowed to enact a minimum wage law that is difficult to breach.
On whether the Federal Government can sanction any of the states for non-compliance, the Senate spokesman said: “If there is a national law…We are running a Federal Government. There is a National Assembly. The National Assembly is to make laws, not for President Tinubu, but for Nigeria.” “All things considered, the NGF holds that the N60,000 minimum wage proposal is not sustainable and cannot fly. It will simply mean that many states will spend all their federal allocations on just paying salaries, with nothing left for development purposes,” the Forum declared in a statement by its acting director on media and public affairs, Hajiya Halimah Salihu Ahmed.
Explaining the broader implications of a centralised minimum wage, the former governor noted that only a small percentage of the population benefits directly from minimum wage negotiations.
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