Honour deal on minimum wage after COVID-19, Anambra NLC tells Obiano

Maduako Igbokwe l Friday, May 01, 2020

ONITSHA – Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC),Anambra State chapter has called on the governor of the state chief Willie Obiano to obey the 2020 agreement it reached with the government on minimum wage and its consequential adjustment immediately after the Covid 19 pandemic.

The chairman of the state chapter of NLC comrade Jerry Nnubia stated this on Friday during an occasion to mark the 2020 world workers day celebration in Awka Anambra state capital.

According to him, “it is the demands and expectations of the congress that the agreement on the implementation of new minimum wage and its consequential adjustment as signed between organised labour and state government on 24th January 2020 will be implemented fully as soon as Covid 19 crisis is over”

He further urged the governor to ensure that all outstanding labour issues with the government are resolved to give way for industrial peace in the state. He also demanded for the state government to provide all necessary materials like hand sanitizers, handwashing materials and others as workers resume works on Monday to assist them in observing the Covid 19 prevention protocols.

The NLC chairman also appealed to private organistons in the state to put in place sufficient enablements to make sure that workers’ works are made easier in the state.

” We demand sufficient personal protection equipment (PPE) ,hand sanitizers, functional wash rooms, suitable rest rooms and others facilities to make the work of brave workers on health frontline less herculean than it is already” he said.

Nnubia consoled the families of workers who have paid the supreme sacrifices in the fight against Covid 19, noting that their sacrifice will never be forgotten easily.

” We remain grateful to our healthcare workers , transport workers, utility employees, journalists and others workers in the informal sector who have continued to show up at their duty stations, despite the threat to death, scarcity of working tools and paucity of gratitude” he added.

The NLC chairman commended the efforts of the governor towards containing and curbing the spread of the deadly virus in the state.

” We also applaud the government distributions of some palliatives to the aged,the vulnerable and the youths in the communities in Anambra state as way of alleviating the suffering of the lockdown” he said