We may pay more than N30,000 as minimum wage –- Obiano – TheNigerialawyer

The Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, has said the state
government may pay workers in the state more than the approved
N30,000 as minimum wage.

The governor stated this while addressing members of the Nigeria
Union of Local Government Employees during their 7th Quadrennial
State Conference in Awka, the state capital.

He assured the workers that no state would surpass Anambra state
in payment of their workers when the issue of the new minimum wage
would be settled

Represented by the Head of Service Harry Uduh, the governor
announced that workers in the state would receive their leave
allowances on or before December 5th, while their December salaries
would be paid on the 15th of December.

“We will surprise workers in the state when the implementation
of the minimum wage would start.

“The state government and organised Labour are in partnership in
the development of the state so your requests are not
misplaced.

The out-going state president of NULGE, Jerry Nnubia, had
decried the disparity in the salaries of state and local government
workers in the area.

He appealed to the governor to harmonise the salaries of the
workers in the two sectors.

Nnubia noted that the contributory pensions scheme as being
operated in the state was against the spirit and letters of the law
establishing it.

He called for the scrapping of the scheme in the state and the
deductions made in that regard refunded to the workers,
accordingly.