Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja
The Federal Government will prepare a supplementary budget to take care of workers’ demand for an increase in salaries when the new minimum wage proposal, which is currently being worked on, is eventually approved.
The Director-General, Budget Office of the Federation, Ben Akabueze, said this on Wednesday in Abuja during a dialogue with Civil Society Organisations on the 2018 budget.
He stated that the fact that there was no provision yet in the 2018 budget proposal currently before the National Assembly to cater for the planned increase did not, in any way, suggest that the government was not willing to increase the workers’ salaries.
The Nigeria Labour Congress has made a proposal for N56,000 for the least paid worker to the Federal Government’s committee on the minimum wage.
The 30-member committee headed by a former Head of Service of the Federation,…
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