…says N70,000 unsustainable for Lagos workers....CONTINUE READING THE ARTICLE FROM THE SOURCE
By Olasunkanmi Akoni
The state council through its Chairman, , however, accused the Governors’ Forum of being responsible for the meager new minimum wage approval following their insistence on paying N50,000 as minimum wage during the negotiating period.>>>CONTINUE FULL READING HERE
President Bola Tinubu had on Thursday, approved N70,000 new minimum wage during a meeting with the leadership of the organized labour in Abuja.
Meanwhile, the National Assembly is expected to receive an Executive Bill for the approval of a new national minimum wage next Tuesday, July 23, following an agreement between President Tinubu and labour leaders.
The agreement reached at the Aso Presidential Villa, Abuja, establishes a new minimum wage of N70,000 to replace the expired N30,000 minimum wage.
Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to President Tinubu on Information and Strategy, confirmed that the bill would be delivered to lawmakers to give legal effect to the agreement before implementation.
Reacting to the development, comrade Funmi Sessi, NLC, Lagos council, expressed mixed feelings on the wage, and stressed the need for Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to give special consideration to workers in the state when implementing the new minimum wage.
According to Sessi, “I would like to express a mixed reaction to the newly approved N70,000 minimum wage by the Federal Government in the sense that we believed, and we know that President Bola Tinubu would have done better than the approved N70,000.
“If not for the reactions of the Governors Forum, where the Governors insisted on N50,000, we believed President Tinubu’s approval would have been in the range of N100,000.>>>CONTINUE FULL READING HERE
