Workers on a protest march
The Association of Senior Civil Servants has demanded a minimum wage of N46,000 for workers.
The union’s Secretary-General, Mr.
Bashir Lawal, in Lagos State, on Wednesday, said that the existing N18,
000 minimum wage cannot meet the socio-economic demands of workers.
According to him, a minimum wage of
N46,000 demand was arrived at after the union met with the National
Public Service Joint Negotiating Council.
He said, “In the past one year, we
presented a proposal for salary review to the Federal Government but the
government said that the price of crude had fallen.
“We argued that if the price of crude is
30 dollars per barrel and the resources of the country are well
managed, money will be enough to pay workers decent salaries.
“From the memo we submitted to the
NPSJNC, we computed what it will take for an average worker to survive
and we arrive at N66,000.
“So, we took 75 per cent of that and we arrived at N46,000 minimum wage.
Assuring that the new minimum wage
demand will not cause crisis in the economic sector, Lawal said, “If the
government believes that the amount will create crisis, we will tell
them what to do to ensure that everybody will be carried along.”
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