NLC Protests Against Minimum Wage Decentralisation Bill

The Rivers State Chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), last Wednesday joined the nationwide protest of the union to reject a new bill seeking to transfer the powers to legislate on minimum wage from the Exclusive Legislative List to the Concurrent List.
Presenting a letter to the State House of Assembly, Chairperson of NLC in the State, Comrade Beatrice Itubo told the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Rt Hon Ikuinyi -Owaji Ibani who was represented by the Clerk of the House, Stanford Oba that the bill was harmful to the efforts of Nigerian workers to earn decent living wage.
Itubo appealed to the state Assembly to reject the bill if it gets to them as it was anti-people and targeted at enslaving workers in the country.
Receiving the letter on behalf of the Speaker of the House, Clerk of the House, Mr. Oba assured that the Assembly would look into the matter.
The bill which was sponsored by a member of the House of Representatives representing Sabon Gari Federal Constituency of Kaduna State, Garba Mohammed has reportedly reached its second reading.
The NLC protest in the State took off from the NLC State Secretariat in D-Line and terminated at the State Assembly in Port Harcourt.