Governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Image Courtesy: Twitter)
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said his government will start the payment of N35, 000 as minimum wage from November 2019.
Sanwo-Olu noted this after a series of meetings between the Lagos State Joint Public Service Negotiating Council (JNC), Lagos State Government, and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) on Friday.
After the meeting, the Lagos State JNC Chairman Rasaq Falade said all necessary terms of settlement and agreement were reached.
Concise News understands that the National Joint Public Service Negotiating Council (NJPSNC) and the Federal Government’s Negotiations and Consequential Adjustment of Salaries had ended with the following figures on Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure (CONPSS): GL. 01-06=N30,000; GL. 07=23.2%; GL. 08=20%; GL. 09=19%; GL. 10-14=16% and GL. 15-17=14%.
However, Falade said the Lagos State Government accepted to pay N35,000 as minimum wage.
He added that the Lagos State government had agreed to pay GL. 01-06=N35,000.09;. GL. 07=30%; GL. 08-10=25%; GL. 12-14=22.5% and GL. 15-17=20%.
Falade further said the payment of allowances to some professions/sectors like health workers, medical personnel, teachers, and so on, embedded in their respective Consolidated Salary Structures (e.g. CONHESS, CONMESS, CONTISS, etc) shall be paid for at rates provided in the salaries government approved in 2011.
“The New Minimum Wage Act came into effect on the 18th April 2019 as such, it was agreed that payment of the six and half months arrears shall be made and concluded by the first quarter of the year 2020,” he said.
