New minimum wage: NLC rejects offer from Kwara govt

Date: 2020-02-05

The meeting between the labour unions and Kwara government on minimum wage ended in deadlock on Tuesday.

The government made fact-based presentations to the labour unions on what it can afford without going to borrow to pay salary.

However, the governor in a statement signed by Rafiu Ajakaye, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor said the Labour unions rejected its proposal.

The Governor added that the proposal from labour is 'very scary and hardly sustainable in Kwara state.'

The statement read in part: "The proposal given to Labour unions includes that no worker will earn below the 30,000 minimum wage enacted by the Minimum Wage Act. We also made suggestions on the consequential adjustments as they affect the other cadres.

"Our initial proposal to the labour, which they have rejected, means that Kwara will now spend 85% of its allocation on public sector workers alone, up from the current 75%, while well over 3.450million Kwarans, will struggle with the remaining 15% percent. This is very scary and hardly sustainable if we want to develop."

Abdulrazaq said his adminstration will keep persuading "labour union leaders to temper their demands with the financial realities of the state which they are privy to."

"Indeed, the state government will soon make them a new offer based on the emerging realities of the state. It is important to note that the 2020 budget had been predicated on $57 per barrel of crude oil. But today the price of crude oil has fallen to $54 and that means the financial projection of the country and indeed the state has been seriously altered.

"Nonetheless, we believe that the labour union leaders and indeed the entire work force are patriotic citizens who fully appreciate the peculiar situation of Kwara at the moment. We urge the workers' unions to kindly see reasons why we cannot afford to go borrowing to pay salary in the face of yawning infrastructural deficits and underdevelopment," the statement added.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

KWASAA     Galadiman Ngeri     Akume     Musa Abdullahi     ASKOMP     Aliyu Salihu     Iyiola Oyedepo     Basit Olatunji     Fola Consultant     Edret Sabi Abel     Kayode Yusuf     ER-KANG Mining     Oba Of Jebba     Omupo     Egbewole     Yusuf Ali     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Arandun     General Hospital, Ilorin     IQRA College     Saudat Abdulbaqi     Sobi FM     Admiralty Villa     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     GANZY     Tanke     Folaranmi Aro     Gbemi Saraki     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Ishola Abdullahi     Olatunde Michaels     Ayegbeni     Saadu Gbogbo Iwe     Hakeem Idris     Abdulmajeed Wahab     High Court     Abdulhakeem Amao     PPS     Apata Ajele Secondary School     Olabode George Towoju     Goodluck Jonathan     Abdullahi Biffo     Quareeb     Gani Saadu     Ahmad Lawan     Amos Justus Sayo     Jaigbade Alao     Nnazua     IDPU     Lafia Aliyu Korasabi     Abubakar Baba     Ahmad Belgore     Mahmud Ajeigbe     UNILORIN Alumni Association     Tuesday Assayomo     Bature Bello     Jamiu Oyawoye     Towoju     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Monsurat Omotosho     Kayode Laro     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     Lanwa     Leke Ogungbe     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Rasaq Jimoh     Alfa Yahaya Road     Tescom.kwarastate.gov.ng     Oba Abdulraheem     Pacify Labs     Ayobami Akanbi     KWASSIP     Anilelerin     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Bareke     Abdulazeez Arowona     Quareeb Islamic Association    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

AbdulRauf Keji     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Lanre Issa-Onilu     Saadu Yusuf     Rafiu Olasile     Olaitan Adefila     Moshood Mustapha     Alimi     Makama Of Ilorin     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     Osinbajo     Bolaji Abdullahi     Lithium     Hajj     KWSIEC     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     KWAFFA     Abubakar Imam     Kola Bukoye     NaAllah     Hijaab     Akeem Olatunji     Elewu     Shettima     Abraham Ojo     Congress For National Consensus     Olugbense     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Shuaib Olarongbe     Azeez Bello     IDPU     Abdulkadri Ahmad Alaiye     Admiralty Villa     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Oke-Kura     Abdul-Rahoof Bello     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Damilola Yusuf Adelodun     Mohammed Saidu     Sidikat Alaya     Aliyu Kora Sabi     Aiyedun     Okiki     Saeedat Aliyu     Adedipe     Wahab Issa     Okin Malt     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     Abubakar Aliagan     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Abdulrahman Onikijipa     Manzuma     Kwara Liberation Group     COVID-19 Palliatives     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Yusuf Arowosaye     Lateef Ademola Olatunji     Code Of Conduct Bureau     Presidential Election     Playing Host     Doyin Group     Alapado     Hassan Taiye Salam     Omu Aran     Oyedepo     Ibraheem Abdullateef     Oja-Oba     Saad Belgore     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Marafan Shonga     Abdulquawiy Olododo     Dunmade     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     GANZY     Mutawali