Transfer Of Minimum Wage To Concurrent List Won’t Work – Ngige

The Federal Government says the transfer of the National Minimum Wage from the Exclusive list to Concurrent list will not work.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, stated this at the 2021 May Day celebration, on Saturday in Abuja.
The theme of the May Day celebration is: “COVID-19, Social and Economic Crises; Challenges for Decent Work, Social Protection and Peoples Welfare”.
Ngige said that the new minimum wage was a national law, which would not be manipulated by anyone.
“A tripartite clause arrangement which coordinated the government enacting the national minimum wage on April 18, 2019, and the President in signing the law, made it clear that the law takes effect on that day.
“That law is a national law, it is not that which you can choose for anybody that falls within the ambit of that law. It is not a question of pick and choose.
“We moved the national minimum wage from 18,000 per month to 30,000; it is an irreducible clause and we need a social protection mechanism.
“We therefore expect the states and people in the private sector to comply. Amendment of trying to expand that law or trying to bring the law into the concurrent list will not work,” he said.
Ayuba Wabba, the President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), had earlier said that any attempt to remove the national minimum wage from the Exclusive Legislative List to the Concurrent List was a mischievous effort to foster crisis, chaos and anarchy in the country.