Chris Ngige – FG didn’t fix N27,000 and N30,000 as minimum wage

– Min. of Employment and Labour, Chris Ngige disclosed that the FG didn’t fix N27,000 and N30,000

– He urged all the state governments and private sector that can pay above the minimum wage to do so

The Min. of Employment and Labour, Chris Ngige during a public hearing on the National Minimum wage bill at Abuja has cleared some misconception about the minimum wage.

There have been report that the Federal Government had fixed the sum of N27,000 for state government to pay workers and N30,000 for the Federal Workers.

Chris Ngige in his statement disclosed that the report is a misconception and that the FG didn’t fix N27,000 or N30,000 as new minimum wage.

He hinted that the Federal Government fixed the sum of N27,000 as minimum wage for all workers across the country, the Federal Government only increase theirs to N30,000 because they can pay it.

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Chris Ngige in his statement said: “I want to clear some misconceptions. The outcry that the government had approved two national minimum wage figures of N27,000 and N30,000 is not true. What the government approved through all the organs — the Federal Executive Council, the National Economic Council and the National Council of State — was for a figure of N27,000 for all workers in Federationtion of Nigeria.

“However, the Federal Government, based on the principles of ability to pay, augmented their own N27,000 without putting workers through a protracted negotiation to N30,000, which means that the lowest paid worker in the federal public service GL1 Step 1 would earn N30,000 minimum wage.”

The Min. Of Labour disclosed that there were some states like Lagos, Rivers among others paying above the minimum wage when it was N18,000.

He, however, urged all state governments and private sector that can pay above the minimum wage to do so.

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