New minimum wage panel ready in February – Ngige

Hehehe....According to PUNCH......The Federal Government has agreed to set up a committee for the review of the new minimum wage in February.

The Special Assistant to the Minister of Labour and Employment on Media, Mr. Nwachukwu Obidiwe, said the government would set up the tripartite committee for the new minimum wage immediately after the submission of the report of the palliative committee next week.

The Minister of Labour, Dr. Chris Ngige, had referred The PUNCH to Obidiwe for the government’s position on the delay in the constitution of the committee on the new minimum wage in a telephone interview on Tuesday.

The Federal Government had set up a 16-man committee on June 1, 2016, on the implementation of palliatives put in place to cushion the effect of the increase in the pump price of petrol from N86 and N86.50k to N145.