Reports reaching Igbere Tv says, the House of Representative has approved N30,000 as the new minimum wage for workers in the country.
The
lawmakers passed the bill during Tuesday’s (today) plenary presided
over by Yakubu Dogara, the Speaker of the House. They approved the
figure after the bill was read and passed for the third time on the
floor of the lower chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja.
Prior
to the passage of the bill, the House adopted the report of the ad-hoc
committee set up to look into the bill presented to the National
Assembly by President Buhari. It said it decided to adopt the report of
the tripartite committee because of the obvious difficult living
conditions in the country.
The lawmakers inserted a clause in
the bill which makes it effective from the date it is asserted to by
the President. They, however, retained the original clause in the bill
which excluded employers of less than 25 people from paying the new
minimum wage.
In the face of the recent development, the
bill would be sent to the Senate for concurrence. Earlier, the
lawmakers concluded debate on the 2019 Appropriation Bill, as well as
read and passed it through the second reading.
They
consequently referred the bill to the House Appropriations Committee and
other related sub-committees for further actions. The House then
adjourned plenary till February 19, after the Presidential and National
Assembly elections.
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