The Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress in Enugu State, Mr Virginus Nwobodo, has said the implementation of the new minimum wage in the state may be delayed. The labour leader said the delay might be caused by the non-existence of a wage template in the state, as the old N18,000 minimum wage was not well implemented by the state government. “We have a peculiar situation in Enugu; there is no standard wage template for the state workers, in line with the N18,000 minimum wage because the state government did not holistically implement it. It will do a serious job to come up with a standard wage chart before we now begin to talk about consequential adjustment across grade levels. The state government had, in December 2019, set up a committee to negotiate with labour on the implementation of the new minimum wage.

Source: Punch January 09, 2020 21:00 UTC