*Says defaulting governors are lawbreakers
Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja
Amid growing concerns over the lingering negotiations on the new national minimum wage for workers in the country, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has faulted the claim by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) that it stepped down deliberations on the proposals to enable President Bola Tinubu to make wider consultations on the issue.
The union, which argued that FEC stepped down the deliberations because it realised that it lacked the power to deliberate on the issue, also described governors who are dragging their feet on the minimum wage as lawbreakers.
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, who spoke to journalists shortly after last week’s FEC meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu, had stated that the council decided to drop the minimum discussion from its agenda to allow the president to make wider consultations on the issue.
However,…
Source: Thisday Newspaper
