Labour opposes payment of minimum wage without consensus in Nasarawa 

Organised Labour has opposed the move by the Nasarawa State government to implement the 2024 National Minimum Wage Act without an agreed salary table.

In a communique issued yesterday, Labour said the move “to say the least is draconian, authoritative and against all known laws and principles of collective bargaining.”

It decried the reported plan by the state government to “pay this month’s salary with a unilateral and vexatious salary table in the name of ₦70,500 minimum wage to workers of the state.”

They rejected the salary table proposed by Governor Abdullahi Sule, insisting that the minimum wage committee, chaired by the deputy governor, Dr Emmanuel Agbadu Akabe, should be allowed to complete its assignment.

Labour queried: “The committee has not completed its assignment with an agreed and signed salary table as it is the practice all over the world.”

Where else does the government get the salary table that it intends to use to pay the new wage to workers in December as stated by Governor Sule during the commissioning of the remodelled office of the deputy governor?”