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.

Garment Factory     Isiaka Yusuf     UNILORIN Alumni Association     Yahaya Abdulkareem     Arandun     Osi     Ile Arugbo     Isiaka Oniwa     Alumni Association Of The Federal Polytechnic Offa     Abdulkarim Adisa     Oyawoye     Oko-Olowo     Bayo Ajia     Yusuf A. Usman     Mike Omotosho     Park     Moses Rahman Popoola     Naira Redesign     NAWOJ     Ilorin General Hospital     Wahab Egbewole     Kwasu     Baba Idris     Yusuf Ali     Abdulraufu Mustapha     Basic Education Certificate Examination     Offorjama     CBT     Aliyu Sabi     Kwara NIPR     Abioye Bello     Razaq Atunwa     Sunday Popo-Ola     Saliu Alamoyo     Tunji Olawuyi     Saadu Alanamu     Isiaka Abdulrazak     Aminat Omodara     Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita     Kayode Zubair     Amina Susa\'a De Ahmed     Ibrahim Abdulkadir Abikan     Shehu Salau     Kwara Hotel     Olabanji Orilonishe     Oyin-Zubair     NYSC     Alaro     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Balogun Ajikobi     Biliaminu Aliu     GGDSS Pakata     Lola Ashiru     AbdulHamid Adi     SWAN     New Naira Notes     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo     Bolakale Ayo     Shettima Of Ilorin     Radio Kwara     Isin     Oke-Odo     SARS     Abdulfatai Ahmed     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     Yoonus Lawal     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Kanu Agabi     Olaitan Buraimoh     Saad Omo\'ya     Senate Presidency     Sulaiman Gado     Kwara Basketball Association     Alanamu     Saheed Akinwumi     Peter Amogbonjaye     Toyin Falola    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Dauda Adeniran Adeshola     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Moshood Kashimawo Abiola     Baba Idris     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Bolakale Ayo     Sheu Ndanusa Usman     Halimat Yusuf     Ridwan Agboola     AGILE Programme     Adeola Abraham     Kwara Restoration Project     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Kwasu     Saliu Ajia     Kola Adesina     Olabode Towoju     Adama Isa     Al-Hikmah Radio     KWASAA     Fatimoh Lawal     Olosi Of Osi     UNILORIN Alumni Association     Al-Hikmah University     Oju Ekun Sarumi     Bola Shagaya     Hamidu Olowo     Ariyo     Adewuyi Funmilayo     Yetunde Balogun     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Samuel Adedoyin     Alimi     Pacify Labs     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak     Nigeria Customs Service     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Ibrahim Jawondo     Ayobami Akanbi     Lanre Jimoh     Diagnostic Centre     Siraj Oyewale     Ubandawaki     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     Yemi Osinbajo     Esinrogunjo     Emir Of Shonga     Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     Sarah Alade     Amusement Park     Sanusi Abubakar     Mustapha Akanbi     Tunji Folami     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Babajide Ajayi     Abubakar Usman Jos     Twitter     Ajayi Okasanmi     Unicontinental Construction Company     Senior Ibrahim Suleiman     Baba Isale     Buhari     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Earlyon Technologies     Magaji Erubu     Kwara Pdp     Rabiu Kwankwaso     IFK     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Henry Makinwa     Elerin Of Erin-Ile     Post Utme     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Sabitiyu Grillo     Oyun     Ibrahim Abiodun