The Federal Government has revealed that payment of the N30, 000 new wage started from April 18.
The date was when President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Minimum Wage Amendment Act Bill into law.
The FG also declared that no Governor in the 36 states of the Federation will renege on paying the new N30,000 minimum wage.
Dr. Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment, gave the clarification, at the weekend during an interactive session with newsmen in Abuja.
The Minister noted that a committee is working out a new template for upward consequential adjustment for those already earning above N30,000.
Ngige said, “It is a national law and no governor can say he will not pay. (The) national minimum wage is Item 34 on the Exclusive Legislative List, of the Third Schedule of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.
“Issue of labour is also there and not on the Concurrent List. If it is on the Concurrent List, then, they can make their own state Assembly laws on that. Every state government is now owing workers if they have not started paying N30,000.
“They (employers) are owing workers, effective from 18th of April, a new minimum wage.
Source: dailypost.ng
