The payment of the N30,000 minimum wage is to be effected on or before December 31, 2019, as the Ministry of Finance has been directed by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday to make the decision happen.
The new development was announced by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, while briefing State House correspondents at the FEC meeting presided over by the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Ngige stated that his office, along with the National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission, had been told to forward the consequential adjustments to states.
Today (Wednesday), we sent to the Federal Executive Council our report and the conciliation that was done last week between the organised labour and the Federal Government of Nigeria on the issue of the new national minimum wage which has been fixed at N30,000 per month and the consequential adjustments that were meant for salaries and wage structures of the public service thereto.
You will remember that last week when I briefed the press, I told you that the salaries and wage structures are compartmentalized into four classes; health, armed forces service, research institutes, and the paramilitary.
So, they have percentage increase in their wage structure and for emphasis the Grade Level – 07 compartment received 23.2 per cent rise, Grade Level 08, 20 per cent, Grade Level 09, 19 per cent, Grade Level 10-14, 16 per cent and Grade Level 15 to 17, 14 per cent in the CONPPS which is the pure civil service structure and agencies earning the same wages as those in the public service.
Council also approved for us that the financial implication be worked out and the payment should be completed on or before December 2019. Council further directed that the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning through the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation should effect all these payments before December 31, 2019.
Council further directed also that the National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission and the Ministry of Labour and Employment should send the consequential adjustments table down to the state and local governments as an advisory document for their information and guidance for their National Joint Public Service status in their respective states because the national minimum wage is a national law.Chris Ngige – punchng.com
