Labour Unions have said that stringent measures are in place to ensure that states and employers implement the national minimum wage and the consequential adjustment before the end of March.
President of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Mohammed Ibrahim, said this at its one-day National Leadership Retreat organized for the union’s National Administrative Committee Members on Wednesday in Abuja.
Ibrahim, who is also the National Internal Auditor of the NLC, said that the measures were imperative due to the continuous delay by states and institutions in manipulating wage payments.
According to him, one of the issues in the implementation of the minimum wage is insincerity.
“The national minimum wage has been signed into law, and payments should have commenced nationwide.
“But in most institutions and states, what they did was just to award a certain amount or a figure they are merely using to play with the intelligence of workers as minimum wage.
“Any state or employer of labour that refuses to implement the national minimum wage and the adjustment in workers’ salaries accordingly will face the consequences.
“The labour laws are there, and we have all that it takes to enforce our rights against those employers,” he said.
Ibrahim noted that while strikes remained a last resort, the union would explore alternative negotiation strategies.
