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Minimum Wage: Identities Of Anti-N30,000 States Unveil

THE country is at present sitting on industrial powder keg
over the N30, 000 new national minimum wage recommended
by the Tripartite members of the National Minimum Wage
Committee.
No sooner had information leaked out that the committee had
concluded its assignment and report ready to be sent to
President Muhammadu Buhari who inaugurated the committee
on November 2017, than the Minister of Labour and
Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, after the Federal Executive
Council, FEC, meeting of October 10, 2018, debunked the
claim that the committee was yet to arrive at a consensus
figure to be recommended to the Federal Government as the
new national minimum wage.
Recall that the committee was inaugurated sequel to
unending pressure by Organised Labour from 2016 following
the expiration of the subsisting N18,000 national minimum
wage which came into effect in 2011. According to Ngige,
among others, “negotiations are still on-going in light of the
fact that at the last meeting, the figures submitted by the
constituencies that make up the Committee are as follows:
state governments, N20,000; federal government N24,000;
organised private sector N24,000; organized labour, N30,000.”
But the organized labour insisted that negotiations had been
concluded and that in the traditions of social dialogue, spirit
of tripartism and collective bargaining, the committee
negotiated, deliberated, and consulted widely before arriving at
the figure of N30, 000 by consensus. in response, organised
labour warned that it would no longer enter into any fresh
negotiations with government over the issue of a new
minimum wage, informing that if government failed to
implement the N30,000 recommended, it would from
November 6, begin a nationwide indefinite strike Meanwhile, it
was gathered that in the course of the work of the committee,
it received memoranda and inputs from 21 state governments,
specialised agencies of the Federal Government, Organised
Private Sector, Organised Labour and the general public.
According to a source, it received memoranda from Delta,
Abia, Adamawa, Imo, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Ekiti (which said it
was consulting), Enugu, Gombe, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Kogi,
Lagos, Nasarawa, Ondo, Oyo, Plateau, Taraba, FCT, and Borno
States. Aside from memoranda, oral submissions were taken,
on which robust debates were held and analysed. To
complement these, hearings were held in the six geo-political
zones of the country.
In order to arrive at a realistic and doable figure, studies /
research were done on the cost of living index, etc. Unwilling
govs From the submissions of the governors to the
committee, the states that are opposed to the N30,000
minimum wage are not hidden. In fact, what the governors
have done is to adpot the submission of Ondo State which is
the second lowest figure besides Taraba State. From checks,
it was found out that Kano with the biggest work force and a
monthly wage bill of N9, 200,000.000, offered to pay N30,600.
Other states similarly, agreed to pay as follows: Adamawa,
N23,000; Taraba, N20,000; Imo, not specific; Plateau,
N25,000, N30,0000, & N57,0000; AkwaIbom, not specific,
Bauchi, N25 200; Abia, N42,000; Ekiti, still consulting; Gombe,
N28,000; Jigawa, N32,000; Kogi, not specific; Katsina, not
specific; Ondo, N22,000; Lagos, will be bound by Southern
State Governors Forum; Oyo, not specific; Nasarawa, N24,750,
N31, 348.30; Enugu, will implement anything agreed; Delta,
cannot accommodate an increase for now on present Federal
Government allocation; Borno, N27,000. Investigation revealed
that at the October 4th and 5th, after a two day warning strike
between September 27 and 28; “and in the spirit of give and
take, the members mutually agreed at the figure of N30,000
which was not favourable to any party. It was concluded with a
promise that the members would come together on an
appointed date to sign and submit the report to President
Buhari
“It is important to explain that preceding the arrival at the
N30,000 figure, the Committee relying on evidence-based
approach, debated the four scenarios submitted by the Figures
Sub-Committee chaired by Dr. Ngige as follows: Scenario One
yielded an average of N38,508.18, median of N42,032, and
mode of N36,000; Scenario Two yielded an average of
N36,522.18, median of N45,000 and mode of N50,000;
Scenario Three yielded an average of N37,000; Scenario Four
yielded an average of N35,000.

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