The National Assembly is set to enforce strict measures against states, local governments, and the Organised Private Sector that default on paying the approved minimum wage.
Plans are underway for the National Assembly to seize the allocations of states and local governments that fail to comply with the new minimum wage approved by the Nigerian government.
In addition to this, the National Assembly has announced its intention to include a clause in the new minimum wage bill that will impose clear sanctions on defaulters.
This bill will be introduced following the receipt of the Wage Award Bill from President Bola Tinubu.
Senate Spokesman Yemi Adaramodu explained that lawmakers would expedite the passage of the Wage Award Bill once it is sent by President Tinubu, according to a report by PUNCH.
Adaramodu noted, “It is possible that the President would send the bill after the National Assembly resumed from the Sallah recess on July 2.”
In his Democracy Day broadcast on Wednesday, President Tinubu promised to forward a bill on the new minimum wage to the National Assembly soon.
It is noteworthy that union leaders are demanding N250,000 while the federal government has proposed N62,000, a disparity that continues to generate controversy.
Labour unions have consistently rejected the government’s offer, calling it a “starvation wage.”
