President Muhammad Buhari
Buhari
President Muhammad Buhari
Buhari Signs New Minimum Wage Bill
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the new minimum wage
bill.
The bill, which has now become a law, will usher in a new pay
structure for Nigerian workers.
The National Assembly had passed the bill approving N30,000 as
the minimum wage for workers.
State governors had opposed the N30,000 minimum wage with many
of them saying they will be unable to pay their workers N30,000
minimum wage.
Mr Buhari’s aide on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita
Enang, said that the president has signed the minimum wage bill
into law.
Mr Enang, who briefed journalists after meeting President Buhari
said the new law has N30,000 as minimum wage for Nigerian
workers.
He also said implementation of the new law starts
immediately.
Mr Enang said the signing of the bill into law now “makes it
compulsory for all employers of labour in Nigeria to pay their
workers the sum of N30,000.”
The presidential aide, however, said employers with less than 25
workers are excluded from paying the new wage.
He said workers of “a ship which sails out of the country and
other persons who are in other kinds of regulated employment which
are accepted by the act” are also excluded from the new wage.
Mr Enang said with the new law, workers now have the right to
sue their employers who fail to pay them the new minimum wage. He
said the act empowers the Minister for Labour or his representative
to act in the case of such denial of the new wage.
The National Assembly passed the minimum wage bill on March 19
and it was transmitted to Mr Buhari on April 2.
By PRNigeria