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Director-General of the Forum of All Progressives Congress governors, Salihu Lukman has faulted the argument of the organised labour that nations who were signatory to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention, have minimum wage on their exclusive legislative list.
The face-off between the government and organised labour was a sequel to a bill sponsored by a member of the House of Representatives, representing Sabon Gari Federal Constituency of Kaduna State, Honourable Mohammed Garba Datti, seeking to move minimum wage from the Exclusive Legislative List to the Concurrent Legislative List in the 1999 Constitution in line with recommendations of the report of the All Progressives Congress APC.
By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA
In the wake of Wednesday’s protest to the National Assembly in Abuja by organised labour against decentralizing the minimum wage structure, Director General of the Progressive Governors’ Forum PGF, Salihu Moh. Lukman has hit back at labour, saying the protest was needless.
At a news conference Wednesday in Abuja, Lukman who was once a top official of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, said labour’s usual resort to protests and strikes have become outdated, urging them to perfect their negotiation skills.
According to him, the protest will not stop the National Assembly from considering bills that have to do with decentralizing the minimum wage structure.