BUHARI SIGNS N30, 000 NEW MINIMUM WAGE BILL

The President aide added further that the signing of the bill into law now “makes it compulsory for all employers of labour in Nigeria to pay their workers the sum of N30,000”,stressing that implementation of the new law starts immediately.

Penpushing also reports that, Enang,  however, said employers with less than 25 workers are excluded from paying the new wage, explaining that workers of “a ship which sails out of the country and other persons who are in other kinds of regulated employment which are accepted by the act” are also excluded from the new wage.

The aide said with the new law, workers now have the right to sue their employers who fail to pay them the new minimum wage, stating that the act empowers the Minister for Labour or his representative to act in the case of such denial of the new wage.

Penpushing recalled that, the National Assembly passed the minimum wage bill on March 19 and it was transmitted to the President  on April 2,while the State Governors had opposed the N30,000 minimum wage with many of them declaring they will be unable to pay their workers the proposed minimum wage..