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N30k minimum wage: Federal committee makes decision

The committee on  Labour, Employment and Productivity in the House of Representative,has taken a decision on the New N30,000 minimum wage proposed by the National Labour Congress (NLC).

The House said on Thursday that the National Assembly would give the bill accelerated hearing and passage.

This was disclosed by the Chairman of the committee, Ezenwa Onyewuchi, in a chat with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN in Abuja.

President Muhammadu Buhari had, on November 27, 2017, set up a 30-man National Minimum Wage Committee headed by former Head of Service of the Federation, Ms. Amal Pepple.

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The committee had recommended a N30,000 minimum wage for workers but the governors, who argued that they were not carried along, insisted that it would be impossible for them to implement the sum without reducing their workforce.

Onyewuchi, who represents Owerri Municipal/North/West Federal Constituency of Imo State, has now assured that when the minimum wage amendment bill is sent to them by President Buhari, the National Assembly would do the needful.

”For us, we have to wait here until the president sends in the amendment bill, it will go through the rudiment of lawmaking; pass through the committees at various levels.

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”We know how important it is; we know that the workers are desirous of a wage increase, especially the minimum wage, which for me as a committee chairman, I consider it important,” he said.

The lawmaker said although the bill would not evade the normal legislative scrutiny, he assured that it would be given an expeditious passage.

“And for me, we want a living wage, a wage the workers can live on.

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“And essentially, I am in support of it because if you look at it on the last May Day, I was the person that moved the motion on the floor of the House on this same issue of wage increase and minimum wage adjustment.

“So, I think for me, there is need to take a second look at the minimum wage and when, it is sent to us, we will give it an expeditious passage,” he said.

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