The Yoruba Leaders of Thought (YLT) has charged the Federal Authorities and the organised labour to provide you with a practical new minimal wage that won’t jeopardise the way forward for Nigerians.
The group which counseled each events for dealing with the minimal wage negotiation with utmost warning and patriotism stated it’s heart-warming that the final curiosity of Nigerians have been considered throughout their conferences.
Chief of the group, Alhaji Tajudeen Olusi nonetheless appealed to all events on the negotiating desk to think about the destiny of the thousands and thousands of stakeholders who is not going to profit immediately however could need to reside beneath the burden of the result of their negotiations.
YLT in an announcement by its Basic Secretary, Mr Bayo Aina stated, “Our want for twenty first century infrastructure can by no means be met if now we have to maintain borrowing after having spent all revenues on salaries emoluments and different recurrent expenditure.”
It additional learn, “Yoruba Leaders of Thought commends the group at the moment negotiating minimal wage for the excessive degree of patriotism, sense of duty and acute consciousness of the potential impression of a hasty deal on the welfare of the bigger majority who could not profit immediately from the brand new minimal wage.”
It additional referred to as on the negotiating group to “endeavour to be truthful to every body, such that everybody could reap some advantages from the sacrifices that all of us have made collectively these previous months following the hike in costs of oil and the floating of the trade charge whilst organised labour seem like asking for the lion share within the identify of Nigerian employees.
“Previously 25 years, all of us have watched helplessly as minimal wage moved from under N1000 and to an assured degree of greater than N60 thousand naira,” the assertion stated.