Ekiti Governor, Kayode FayemiThe Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has reached a consensus that state governments would have to negotiate with their individual workers on the implementation of the consequential increments of the N30,000 Minimum Wage Law.
The chairman of the forum and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, who read the communique emanating from the Forum’s meeting to newsmen in Abuja today, October 28, said that though state governors agreed to the N30, 000 minimum wage, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) did not determine what happens in the states.
He said that each state had its State Executive Council, which is the highest decision making body at the state level, adding: “the forum as the representative body of the states keenly followed what happened in the negotiations that led to that template.
“As far as we are concerned, the best the forum can do is to stick with what has been agreed with the states. States are part of the tripartite negotiations. States agreed to that N30,000 minimum wage increase.
“States also know that there will be consequential adjustment but that will be determined by what happened on the state-by-state basis, because there are different number of workers and different issues at the state level.
“Every state has its own trade union joint negotiating committee and they will undertake this discussion with their state governments.
“The day after this agreement was reached with labour, it was on record that I was on a national television and made the position of the governors clear that for us, this was a national minimum wage increase, not a general minimum wage review.
“Yes, that may necessitate consequential increment, we have no doubt about that but that is a matter for the states to discuss with their workers.”
Source: NAN.
