The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has directed all state councils where the National Minimum Wage has not been fully implemented by the last day of November, 2024 to proceed on strike beginning from the 1st day of December, 2024.
The directive is part of the resolutions of the NLC after its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting at the weekend.
In a communique, NLC noted that the non-implementation of the 2024 National Minimum Wage Act is a betrayal by certain governors and government officials across the country which it described as a blatant disregard for the law and the lives of millions of Nigerian workers, who are being exploited by the very leaders sworn to protect them.
Furthermore, it resolved to set up a National Minimum Wage Implementation
Committee that will among others commence a nationwide assessment,
mobilization and sensitization campaign, educating workers and citizens on the
need to resist this assault on their dignity and rights.
