As the talks between the organised Labour and the Federal government on a new national minimum wage got deadlocked on Wednesday, the Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal has announced that his government will begin paying its workers a minimum wage of N30,000 starting from the month of June.
The Governor announced this during a meeting with the leadership of the Zamfara State chapter of the Labour Unions.
A statement by the spokesperson for the Zamfara Governor, Sulaiman Idris, revealed that implementing the minimum wage reflects the State government’s commitment to improving workers’ welfare.
The statement added that the Zamfara State Government will start paying a minimum wage of N30,000 instead of N7,000, effective June this year.
The State said, while addressing the leaders of the State chapters of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Governor Lawal reiterated that implementing the new N30,000 minimum wage, aims at motivating Zamfara workers.
“Since assuming office as the governor of Zamfara State, my administration has implemented numerous civil service reforms, to ensure workers’ welfare. We have achieved the payment of withheld three-months’ salary of workers, the payment of leave grants and other bonuses. My government has paid a total of N4,337,087,490 billion in four batches to State and Local Government retirees, which have not been paid since 2011.”
(Editor: Ken Eseni)
