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Home » Private Sector Backs FG’s N57, 000 Minimum Wage Proposal
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Private Sector Backs FG’s N57, 000 Minimum Wage Proposal

Editor1By Editor1May 26, 2024
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The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) says the private sector remains committed to the N57,000 earlier proposed at the Tripartite Committee meeting on the National Minimum Wage.

NECA’s Director-General, Mr. Adewale-Smatt Oyerinde, said in a statement on Sunday that the amount represented a 90 percent increase in the national minimum wage.

Oyerinde said that this was notwithstanding ongoing challenges, made worse by rising interest rates, astronomical logistics costs, increasing energy tariffs, and multiple taxes, levies, and fees.

“With organized businesses declaring over one trillion naira in combined losses and many shutting down their businesses for different reasons, while others are relocating to other climes, the ability to pay the prevailing N30,000 was already compromised.

“It will be practically impossible to guarantee enterprise sustainability and job security with the current demands of organized labor,’’ he said.

READ ALSO: Zamfara Begins Payment Of N30,000 Minimum Wage Five Years After

The director-general, however, said that NECA would continue to support the welfare of workers and the protection of their jobs, which could only be guaranteed by the survival of the enterprise.

Following negotiations on the national minimum wage, he urged the tripartite committee to prioritize job creation and job security.

Oyerinde said that the call was in view of the worrisome and increasing rate of unemployment in the country.

According to him, the committee should refocus its effort on protecting jobs, boost the capacity of the private sector to create more jobs, and ensure sustainability and the ability to pay.

He said that productivity should be a key driver of higher wages.

READ ALSO: FG Drags Governors To Supreme Court Over LG Autonomy

“According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the combined rate of unemployment and time-related underemployment as a share of the labor force population (LU2) increased to 17.3 percent in Q3 2023 from 15.5 percent in Q2 2023.

“In specific terms, the unemployment rate increased significantly in Q3 2023 at 5.0 percent.

“With these figures, more efforts should be concentrated on keeping more people in employment while the government continues to implement its planned interventions in transportation, food security, and general macro-economic stability,” Oyerinde said. (NAN)

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