{"id":461241,"date":"2011-07-14T23:12:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/14\/minimum-wage-reps-labour-talks-deadlock\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T23:12:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:12:12","slug":"minimum-wage-reps-labour-talks-deadlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/14\/minimum-wage-reps-labour-talks-deadlock\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum wage: Reps, Labour talks deadlock"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Okey Ndiribe
ABUJA \u2014 Despite the intervention of the House of Representatives in the dispute between the organised labour\u00a0 and\u00a0 Federal Government\u00a0 over the non-implementation of the minimum wage law, there is no silver lining yet\u00a0 in the horizon over the impending general strike declared by the Nigeria\u00a0 Labour Congress (NLC).<\/p>\n

The House had invited the NLC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) for dialogue over last Tuesday\u2019s\u00a0 declaration of a general strike\u00a0 to commence Wednesday over the minimum wage dispute.<\/p>\n

It was learnt that when\u00a0 the NLC\u00a0 delegation met with the leadership of the House of Representatives yesterday, officials\u00a0 of the National Salaries and Wages Commission\u00a0 and Budget Office\u00a0 of the Presidency\u00a0 who were also present, informed participants at the meeting that the Federal Government could not implement the new minimum wage for all categories in the public sector because the funds were not available.<\/p>\n

They also complained that should the new minimum\u00a0 wage\u00a0 be effected,\u00a0 the cost of\u00a0 salaries for workers in the public sector would balloon by N55 billion which was not accommodated in the budget for the current financial year.<\/p>\n

A source told Vanguard: \u201cThe officials from the Budget office told us that only\u00a0 allocations\u00a0 for workers on salary grades one to six were made in the 2011 appropriation of the Federal Government\u201d<\/p>\n

Contacted on the matter the Acting\u00a0 General Secretary of NLC Owei Lakemfa refused to comment but hinted that no progress had been achieved in the negotiation with the Federal Government despite the intervention of the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

It would be recalled that the leadership of the NLC last Tuesday declared a three day nation-wide warning strike to commence next Wednesday\u00a0 to compel both public\u00a0 and private sector employers\u00a0 to implement the new minimum wage law.<\/p>\n

The Governors Forum had stirred the hornet\u2019s nest over the vexed issue\u00a0 few weeks ago\u00a0 when it asked the Federal Government to remove the subsidy from premium motor spirit\u00a0 (petrol)\u00a0\u00a0 so that\u00a0 the states could utilize\u00a0 expected\u00a0 bigger\u00a0 allocations\u00a0 from the federation account to pay their workers the new minimum wage.<\/p>\n

The NLC had rejected their demand and pointed out\u00a0 that they never presented that condition during the negotiation for a new minimum wage.<\/p>\n

The NLC had further produced documents to indicate that some of the state governments even proposed salaries that were far higher than what the NLC eventually settled for during the tripartite negotiations.<\/p>\n

Investigations by Vanguard revealed that states like Abia, Kwara and Kebbi proposed to pay their workers N46,700 and N30,000\u00a0 respectively while Anambra and\u00a0 Federal Capital Territory offered to pay their workers N25,000 as minimum wage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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