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Minimum wage: NLC gives Bauchi govt 21 days ultimatum

The Nigerian Labour Congress has given the Bauchi State Government 21
days ultimatum within which to resume negotiations and subsequently
implement the new N30,000 national minimum wage in the State.

Addressing journalists on Friday at a Press Conference in Bauchi, the
state Chairman of the NLC, Com. Danjuma Kirfi, said this was part of
resolutions reached at the end of the joint state executive council
meeting.

Danjuma said to him, after a far-reaching decision and deliberation
on the non-conclusion of negotiations of the adjustment of the new
national minimum wage in the state, the union resolved that if nothing
is done after the ultimatum, they would embark an industrial action.

“Members view absence of commitment on the part of government
representatives towards the resolutions and the subsequent
implementation of the new national minimum wage in the state,” He
stated.

“The Organized Labour calls on the government to restore negotiations
without further delay. That failure to conclude negotiations within the
shortest period of time, the leadership will not guarantee the
industrial atmosphere in the state.

“That government is hereby given 21 days ultimatum within which to
conclude negotiations and implementation of the new national minimum
wage in the state.”

Kirfi futher explained that although the state government had started
paying workers the minimum wage from grade levels 01 to 06 whose salary
is not up to N30,000, “our bone of contention is the consequential
adjustment, that is the increment of officers from grade levels 07 to
14. That is what remains undone and that is what we are agitating for.”

The union leader said that although there is a shortfall in
government revenue from the federation account as it is in other states,
and as Bauchi indigenes, they are very much compassionate about it,
saying, however, that it cannot stop them as workers from pursuing their
rights.

He called on the state government to be more proactive in sourcing
for money to complement its revenue from the federation account so that
workers can be paid their minimum wage.

He also called on workers in the state to remain calm, assuring that
the NLC leadership was struggling for their rights and are working to
resolve the matter once and for all.

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