Bauchi Sets Up Technical Committee On Minimum Wage

An 11-member tripartite technical committee involving the Bauchi State government, State Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress was Friday inaugurated in Bauchi to work out modalities for payment of the national minimum wage to civil servants in the state.

Briefing newsmen after the State Executive Council meeting which incorporated leaders of labour unions in the state, the NLC chairman, Comrade Dauda Shu’aibu, said N70,000 had been agreed upon as the minimum wage.

Shu’aibu told the press, “We are here to tell you the outcome of the resolution of this concluded State Executive Council meeting held between the State NLC and TUC in relation to the new national minimum wage 2024.

“To this, we have five processes as far as the issue of minimum wage is concerned. The first step is to negotiate, this has been done and N70, 000 was agreed upon. The second course was to legislate and it has passed through the House of Representatives and the Senate.

“The third process is to course the assent of Mr President, next is gazetting which has been concluded, and the last is the issuance of circular to the National Salaries and Wages Commission, that has been done and circulars were circulated to all relevant MDAs across Nigeria.”

Comrade Dauda Shu’aibu said the national leadership of the congress had organised two training sessions on the strategy and method of conducting the negotiations which were conducted in the northern and southern zones in Kano and Lagos respectively.

He explained that the meeting agreement was to form a technical committee with membership derivable from all sources of salary structures in the state.

Shu’aibu further stated that the inaugurated technical committee would swing into action and any moment from Friday, October 4, 2024 it would start negotiations with all the tools and circulars at hand.