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September 11, 2019
As workers earnestly await the implementation of theminimum wage, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige has promisedto end the disagreement on the consequential adjustment and salary relativity.
Ngige, who made the promise to Labour Writers inAbuja on Wednesday, said that the disagreement was responsible for the delay inthe implementation of the new minimum wage.
The minister said that the decision to end thedisagreement was to avoid the burden the backlog of arrears, the new minimumwage, would pose to state governments.
Ngige said that another negotiation was important tobe able to ascertain the number of states that would be able to be to pay thebacklog.
He said that it was the determination of thePresident Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to fast-track the negotiation onconsequential adjustment.
The minister said he had received a correspondencefrom the Chief of Staff to the President notifying him of  a deadline to the negotiation, adding thatthe details would soon be made public.