Govs Working On Implementable Minimum Wage’NGF

The  36 State governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, have said  that they are reviewing their individual fiscal space as state governments and the consequential impact of various recommendations, geared towards arriving at what they described as an improved Minimum wage

This came as the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, gave reasons organised labour is fronting N615,000 as the new national minimum wage, saying it is being magnanimous by not raising its demands despite compelling reasons to do so

According to the governors, while they acknowledge various initiatives adopted recently by way of wage awards and partial wage adjustments, it is imperative to state that the 37-member tripartite committee inaugurated on the National Minimum Wage is still in consultations and yet to conclude its work.

The governors added that they would remain committed to the process and promised that better wages would be the invariable outcome of their ongoing negotiations.

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