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The Nigerian Employers Consultative Association (NECA) has called on the Federal Government to set up the Committee on the New National Minimum Wage for workers.
Mr. Adewale-Smart Oyerinde, director general of NECA, said this in Abuja.
Organised Labour in their separate new year messages had called on the Federal Government to set up the Committee on national minimum wage.
The Committee on the national minimum wage made of government, organised private sector and organised labour, were expected to deliberate on the national minimum wage fixing for workers in the country.
According to Oyerinde: “Towards the end of last year, November and December, the government had requested for the nominees of organised private sector, which we have forwarded to them and I believed, organised labour have forwarded theirs to them.
“What we are expecting is for the government to actually call the committee to commence their work immediately.
“We are hoping that before the end of this month, the committee will be called to commence deliberation that will lead us to arriving at the new national minimum wage for Nigerian workers,” he said.
He also noted that President Tinubu’s new year broadcast on the minimum wage would still be subjected to the negotiations by the committee using the framework of the ILO convention 131 for national minimum wage fixing.
