{"id":2205,"date":"2019-01-11T18:51:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T18:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2019-01-11T18:51:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T18:51:37","slug":"new-minimum-wage-labour-fires-back-at-buhari-over-plans-to-review-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/new-minimum-wage-labour-fires-back-at-buhari-over-plans-to-review-salaries","title":{"rendered":"New Minimum Wage: Labour fires back at Buhari over plans to review salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ayuba Wabba, President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), has said they will oppose any move to tamper with legitimately earned salaries of workers in the guise of implementing the new minimum wage.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-4\" data-google-query-id=\"CIXx5oWc5t8CFUeiewodZnwDDg\">\n<p>\u201cThat is not the principle behind the minimum wage and the technical committee is simply a government committee. It is their internal mechanism. I am not so sure that minimum wage is about reducing workers\u2019 wages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they have earned their salaries legitimately, there is no way the minimum wage can reduce it. In fact, the minimum wage is about empowering workers and improving on what they collect. I don\u2019t think that decision is right because every salary a worker earns is legitimately negotiated on the table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what they need to do is to reduce salaries of political office holders, those that are collecting salaries that are not appropriated or salaries that are humongous. We know the wastages are the security votes and the high cost of governance,\u201d Wabba stated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-20\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayuba Wabba, President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), has said they will oppose any move to tamper with legitimately earned salaries of workers in the guise of implementing the new minimum wage. \u201cThat is not the principle behind the minimum wage and the technical committee is simply a government committee. 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