The template on the new national minimum wage will soon be out, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Nkeruka Onyejeocha said on Friday.
The Head of Service of the Federation, Mrs Didi Walson-Jack, has also inaugurated a 16-member committee on consequential adjustments in salaries, to deliberate on issues arising from provisions of the National Minimum Wage Act, 2024.
Onyejeocha said, “As we speak there’s a meeting on the government side this morning on the new minimum wage and consequential adjustment and by 2 pm, the tripartite are meeting with the Head of Service. Once they get what we are supposed to pay they will start paying.”
She also said the state ought to have constituted their own committees to work out the figures “because it doesn’t take rocket science to have figures of what we should really give.”
The delay in implementation of the new minimum wage has been blamed on the non-release of the template by the National Salaries, Incomes & Wages Commission (NSIWC) since the signing of the new minimum wage bill by President Bola Tinubu in July.
