Federal Government has raised the hope of Nigerian workers with the recommendation of a 29-member Minimum Wage Committee to work out modalities and come up with a new minimum wage that will bring relief to Nigerian workers.
Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, who disclosed this while presenting the report of the Technical Committee on Minimum Wage and Palliatives to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, said the welfare of Nigerian workers was key to the change agenda of the current administration.
The technical committee set up by the Federal Government will also be a secretariat of the committee to be domiciled at the National Salaries Income and Wages Commission.
The committee, which has made far reaching recommendations capable of alleviating the sufferings of the masses, is comprised of eight persons are to represent the Federal Government, organised labour, private sector and three members representing the state governments to be drawn from the Governors Forum, the All Progressives Congress Governors Forum and the People’s Democratic Party Governors Forum.
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