NLC: Next Minimum Wage Will Be Based on Cost of Living
Amidst rising cost of goods and services in the country, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said it would ensure that the next national minimum wage to be negotiated in 2024 reflects the prevailing cost of living.
It lamented that following the removal of fuel subsidy by the federal government, life has become extremely unbearable for workers.
Addressing participants at the opening of the 19th edition of the NLC’s Harmattan School holding in Abuja, President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero, said it had become necessary for governments at all levels to recognise that life and living conditions were exceedingly difficult, especially for working people in both the formal and informal sectors of the economy.
The NLC president also spoke on the face-off between organised labour and the Imo state government.
According to him, as far as the Congress was concerned: “the thing that can assuage its pains is for the Imo State Government to address all labour issues and return the so called ‘ghost workers’ to their jobs, pay all outstanding salaries and pensions and call back all victimised workers to their jobs.
He said payment of salary which was a primary function of government was now becoming difficult to fulfill. “It is unimaginable that payment of salaries will now become collective bargaining issues.
The theme this year’s Harmattan School was “Building Workers Skills for Policy Engagement.
Speaking on the goal of the Harmattan School, Ugboaja said the NLC had made it a compulsory for any worker who would contest for any office in the unions to show evidence of having attended training courses organised by the NLC.
