17 States Begin Payment Of Minimum Wage, NLC Confirms

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has confirmed that based on available information, only 17 states have so far commenced the implementation of the N30,000 new minimum wage for civil servants in their employment.
The labour movement also said that negotiations on the payment of the new minimum wage were still on-going in 16 states.
According to detailed updates made available to journalists, yesterday, at its National Administrative Council (NAC) meeting in Abuja on the progress made on the implementation of the new minimum wage by the states, NLC said that only Taraba State was yet to begin negotiation with its workers.
It said that while agreement has been reached on the new minimum wage in Cross River, Enugu and Sokoto states, the parties have not signed it.
The NAC also said that states that have commenced the implementation of the new minimum wage include, Borno, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Lagos, Ondo, Sokoto, Yobe and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The NLC also said that 20 states have not commenced the implementation of the new minimum wage.
The states include Benue, Cross River, Ekiti, Enugu, Gombe, Imo, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Plateau, Rivers, Taraba and Zamfara.
However, the Rivers State Government, last month, paid what it said was the approved minimum wage for workers, which the state NLC has claimed did not reflect what was negotiated with the government team.