Raise workers’ salaries now – TUC urges FG

The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has called connected the Federal Government to instantly summation the salaries of national workers alternatively than hold for the adjacent reappraisal of the nationalist minimum wage.

TUC President, Festus Osifo, made the telephone connected Wednesday successful Abuja portion briefing journalists aft a gathering of the union’s National Administrative Executive Council.

Osifo said the authorities had the powerfulness to amended workers’ wage without waiting for a caller Minimum Wage Act.

He explained that the nationalist minimum wage should service arsenic the lowest magnitude an leader is required to wage workers and should not forestall the authorities oregon employers from offering higher salaries.

Osifo said the authorities could amended workers’ payment without waiting for a caller Minimum Wage Act.

“The Federal Government tin summation the salaries of its lowest-paid workers and set the wage operation upwards. In the backstage sector, galore employers already wage supra the statutory minimum, peculiarly for workers with specialised skills and greater responsibilities,” Osifo said.

He cited banks, nutrient and beverage companies, and lipid and state firms arsenic examples.

According to him, their salaries were mostly based connected the worth of the jobs alternatively than the nationalist minimum wa...