NECA asks FG to constitute minimum wage committee 

The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association has called on the Federal Government to constitute a tripartite committee that will deliberate on the new national minimum wage. While expressing displeasure at the disruption of the National Workers’ Day celebration in Abuja by aggrieved workers, the Director-General, NECA, Mr. Olusegun Oshinowo, said in a statement on Tuesday, that the fracas would have been avoided if the government had been proactive.

According to him, the issue of a new wage was due for discussion in 2016, after five years that the N18,000 minimum wage came into effect. Oshinowo stated, “The unfortunate incident was needless and avoidable if the government had proactively done the needful.

There was indeed an understanding that the national minimum wage would be due for discussion after five years. In effect, the 2011 agreement, ordinarily, should be open for discussion in 2016. Government should not have waited for workers’ repeated clamour for discussion before acting in good faith.

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