Minimum wage: Employees cannot dictate salaries to their employers, says Ngige

Amidst the growing rage for the upward review of the national minimum wage , the Minister of Labour and Employment , Dr . Chris Ngige , says employees cannot dictate to their employers what they ought to earn but an agreement must be reached collectively .
A statement by the Director ( Press ) at the Ministry , Samuel Olowookere , said the minister said this when the new Director-General of Nigeria Employers Consultative Association , Mr . Timothy Olawale ; and his predecessor , Mr . Olusegun Oshinowo, visited him .

Ngige said, “ We need to arrive at a figure which the employers can afford to pay as an employee cannot fix a figure for the employer . Rather , it must be based on mutual agreement by the tripartite partners.

“It is not a function of moving motions or voting at the National Tripartite Negotiation Committee that the figure must be as the organised labour appears to make it look .

“There is absolutely therefore no need to heat up the polity. The government’ s proposed new minimum wage figure is clearly based on critical facts and indices incapable of causing disequilibrium in the economy. ”

The minister said it was important for the organised labour to accept a new minimum wage based on the capacity and the ability of both the government and the private sector to pay .

He appealed to NECA to appeal to the organised labour to accede to the new minimum wage . figure mutually agreeable to all the social partners .

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