Minimum Wage: Union Urges Consequential Adjustment, Fresh Table

The Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC) yesterday urged the Federal Government to negotiate with the council on the consequential adjustments arising from the new minimum wage.
The JNPSNC, Trade Union Side (TUS), also said after a meeting in Lagos that millions of workers especially civil servants were hopeful that implementation of the new wage structure would commence without delay.
Chairman, TUS, Mr Abdrafiu Adeni, side of the JNPSNC, and the Secretary, Mr Bashir Lawal, signed the statement after the meeting.
“We urge the government to immediately meet the TUS of the Joint Council to work out the consequential adjustments and produce a fresh salary structure in line with the new national minimum wage,” the JNPSNC said.
According to the union, the standard practice is that once a new minimum wage is fixed, a fresh salary table will be generated so that employees in all salary grade levels will benefit from the new emoluments.
It said that this was the standard practice all over the world, urging that Nigeria should not be an exception as the generation of a fresh salary table in line with the new minimum wage would prevent distortion and overlapping.
The union said that after a national minimum wage was fixed in 2011, the consequential adjustment was not properly handled.