By Miracle Ogunde
The Nigerian Labour Congress, (NLC) has said that the body is yet to agree on a specific amount as new minimum wage for workers in the country.
NLC President, Joe Ajaero, stated this in an interview with newsmen in Yola, Adamawa State.
Ajaero, who spoke at the sidelines of the North-East zonal public hearing by the tripartite committee on national wage, said the N500,000 and N700,000 being proposed as new minimum wage is unknown to the NLC.
He maintained that the union is yet to adopt a position on an amount to be presented to the tripartite committee on the new minimum wage for workers.
According to him, all the figures flying around should be disregarded because the NLC as a body had yet to adopt a common presentation on the new minimum wage.
“The N500,000, N700,000 you are hearing are being collated at the level of the states. In Lagos and other places, I think they are about N700,000 while in other places they are talking about N500,000 which are inputs collated from geopolitical zones,” Ajaero said.
“But the NLC secretariat has not made any presentation, these minimum figures are what is coming from the states. When we collate them then we’ll do a central presentation based on the raw materials we are getting from states.
“It (minimum wage) has to be relative to the cost of living in those states. You will agree with me that rent here is not as that in Abuja, and not the same thing as in Lagos. So relatively speaking you won’t have a straitjacket-like presentation by Labour in all the states.”
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