Workers in Cross River have protested the payment of May salary on the first day of the month by Governor Ben Ayade.
Ayade has consistently paid the May salary on the first day of the month in the last three years of his tenure.
But speaking to journalists, the state chairman of the Trade Union Congress,TUC, Clarkson Otu, said workers and the leadership of labour were unhappy over the early payment of salary.
According to the labour leader, even though the government means well, labour was nonetheless not happy with the situation.
Speaking in a similar vein, the state Chairman of the Nigerian Labour Congress,NLC, Ben Ukpepi, decried the early payment of salaries by the state government.
Ukpepi said labour would engage with the governor with a view to putting an end to early payments of salaries in the state.Meanwhile, Ayade has expressed his administration’s readiness to implement the new minimum wage recently passed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari.
