Five months after the labour and employment Minister, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha told workers that implementation of the new minimum wage will take effect from May one 2024, the Committee on Consequential Adjustments in Salaries for civil servants has agreed that the new minimum wage will now be implemented from July 29, 2024.
This was stated in a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, issued at the end of the committee’s meeting in Abuja on Friday.
The committee also recommended that the wage award, which was discontinued by the federal government, should be paid until July 28 2024.
AIT gathered that some civil servants have not been paid the wage award for the initial six months of October 2023 to February 2024 and wonders if the government will honour the recommendation to extend to July 2024.
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The consequential adjustment committee, headed by the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Didi Walson-Jack, noted that the government considered the economic situation in the country before making its decisions.
Other key members of the committee are Benjamin Anthony, chairman public service negotiating team of organised labour and Ekpo Nta, the executive vice chairman of the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission NSIWC.
The MoU recommended that the NSIWC will generate the appropriate salary templates for other consolidated salary structures for implementation as well as the payment of the wage award issued via a circular dated 19 October 2023 should continue to be paid until 27 July 2024.
The committee was established to implement the provisions of the National Minimum Wage Act 2024, which raised the national minimum wage from ₦30,000 to ₦70,000.
(Editor: Okechukwu Eze)
