NLC Rejects Deliberate Delay, Demands Immediate Implementation - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 26, 2019
TheNational Executive Council of NLC has rejected the delay by the FederalGovernment to commence implementation of the New National minimum wage.
NLCPresident, Ayuba Wabba, and its immediate past General Secretary, PeterOzo-Eson, who jointly signed the communiqué, at the end of its meeting in Kano,called for the immediate implementation effective from the day the Minimum Wagewas assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Thenew minimum wage bill, which was signed into law by the president in April, hadbeen stalled over the issue of relativity and consequential adjustment ofsalaries following deliberations between government and labour.
Onchallenges of insecurity, the NEC said that there had been increase in the waveof insecurity in the country, especially due to resurgence in kidnapping forransom and armed robbery, communal clashes and Boko Haram attacks.
TheNEC expressed alarm at the recent confessions of a recently arrested bandit whoallegedly disclosed that helicopters drop weapons for criminals, thussuggesting possible collusion between criminal elements and big-time financiersof criminality.