The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has branded state governors’ intervention in national minimum wage negotiations as unlawful.
The NLC’s chief of information and public relations, Benson Upah, made the assertion during an interview with Arise Television.
He said:
“The process for arriving at a national minimum wage comprises three parties, which is labour, employers, and government. The government is currently playing a dual role of being the employer as well.
“Governors have been part of this process, and for some of them to want to pull out from the national team (under the government) will be injurious to the whole process and an act of treachery and betrayal because they know fully that they have been part of the government team. It is tripartite.
“They do not have the constitutional right to hijack it.”
Upah stated that the main challenge in the minimum wage negotiations with the government is “prioritisation and political will.”
He branded the governors’ willingness to take over the talks as “completely irrational,” saying that including labour on the concurrent list might result in a slew of new laws, making it impossible for investors to navigate the legal landscape.
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cc: Daily Post Ng
