By Victor Young
Employers, Organised Labour and Civil society organisations, have called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to assent to the N30,000 Minimum Wage Bill transmitted to him by the National Assembly over two weeks ago, without further delay for implementation to commence in earnest.
The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council , JNPSNC, Trade Union side, United Labour Congress of Nigeria, ULC, and umbrella body for pro-labour civil society groups in the country; Joint Action Front, JAF, urged President Buhari to quicken action on the signing of the bill.
Speaking, Director General, Timothy Olawale, said “We have been made to understand that Presidential assent is not as simple as that and that there are processes the bill has to pass through. In other words, signing is not automatic and that the Presidency needs to compare the one sent to the National Assembly with the one the National Assembly sent…
