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.

Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Saliu Tunde Bello     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Olosi Of Osi     Bola Magaji     Overland     Alaaya     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Abdulrahman Onikijipa     Alabe     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Mohammed Katsina Ahmed     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Tafida Of Kaiama     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Bola Olukoju     Oba Abdulrahim     Taofik Mustapha     Olupako Of Share     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Kwara Teaching Service Commission     Bola Sagaya     Ajase-Ipo     Osi     Simeon Ajibola     NURTW     Shettima Of Ilorin     Cassava Growers\' Association     Sam Okaula     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Lai Gobir     Toyosi Thomas     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     Wahab Isa     Balogun Gambari     The Herald     KWASEIC     Oya State     Yinka Aluko     Centre For Digital Economy     Federal College Of Education (Special), Afon     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     Moshood Mustapha     Wasiu Odewale     Tafida Of Ilorin     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     CLAY POT     SSA Youth     Labaeka     Valsolar Consultoria     Ajuloopin     Nigeria Customs Service     Ayobola Ipinlaiye     Joseph Bamigboye     AbdulGafar Tosho     Abdul-Rahoof Bello     NIPOGA     Salihu Ajia     Oni Adebayo     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Kwara South     Unicontinental Construction Company     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Saeedat Aliyu     Modibbo Kawu     Akeem Olatunji     Hassanat Bello     Mutawali     Segun Abifarin     Victor Gbenga Yusuf     Matthew Okedare     Isiaka Alikinla     SWAN     Abatemi Usman     Adamu Atta     AbdulRahman Saad    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Shururat Olatinwo     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     Waheed Ibrahim     Oro Grammar School Old Students Association     Sodiya     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Osi     Pilgrims Board     Adedipe     Tsaragi-Share     Akanbi-Oke     Bilikisu Oniyangi     Otunba Taiwo Joseph     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     Balogun-Ojomu     Jaiz Bank     Kwara Hotel     Yaru     Aminu Ado Bayero     Cassava Growers\' Association     Dasuki Belgore     ASKOMP     Lucky Omoluwa     Okin Malt     Suleman Abubakar     Maimunat Oniyangi     Ilorin Talaka Parapo (ITP)     Senior Ibrahim Suleiman     Valsolar Consortium     Quranic Recitation Competition     Ayekale     Salman Suleiman     Sanitation Exercise     Bankole Omisore     Okeose Christian Cementary     Sadiq Buhari     Ahmed Saidu Rufai     Iyaloja-General     TVC Female National Debate     Kwara State Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Omotosho     Ishaq Oloyede     Mashood Dauda     Garba Ado Sanni     Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Halimat Yusuf     Muhammed Abdullahi     Abubakar Lah     Adegoke Bamidele     Mutawali     Gbugbu     Special Adviser On Digital Innovation     New Model Police Station     Folorunsho Alao     Daud Adeshola     BIR     CELF     Vasolar Consultoria     ASMAU PLAZA     Mufutau Olatinwo     Aso-ofi     Umar Ayinla Saro     Olabanji Orilonishe     Olaitan Buraimoh     Rafiu Ibrahim     Aliyu Umar     Yakub Lai Gobir     Police Commissioner     Wasiu Onidugbe     Kwha.gov.ng     Monthly Sanitation     Government House     Kwara Polytechnic     Henry Makinwa     ASUU     Saad Omo\'ya