The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC has directed state councils to commence immediate negotiation with the Governors on the implementation of the consequential adjustment of the thirty-thousand naira new national minimum wage.
NLC President Ayuba Wabba, made this known at the 2019 NLC National Leadership retreat, held in Enugu, with the theme: “Strategic Leadership and New Challenges in the Future of Work.”
Wabba, while speaking at the event, noted that the main goal of the retreat is to get the leadership of Congress at all levels “to examine, discuss, brainstorm and proffer pragmatic ideas to the challenges of today and fears for tomorrow confronting Nigerian workers”.
He lamented that Nigerian workers are forced to beg for
their salaries, which are now owed in arrears, while other countries have fully
accommodated and automated the process of minimum wage adjustments and are now
focused on living wages.
