Former Director-General of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms, Dr Joe Abah, has faulted the N60,000 per month minimum wage offered to the organized labour by the federal government.
In a post on his official X account, @DrJoeAbah said the proposal means that the minimum worker will earn N2,700 per day.
He said: “It’s just that I don’t currently have the time to address it in depth. Suffice it to say that a minimum wage of N60,000 per month is just N2,700 per day, using a 22-day work month.
“You cannot say that people should not factor in cost of transportation, food, electricity and petrol in calculating minimum wage. That’s bizarre.
“It is also NOT true that most public servants have all manners of allowances. Maybe you mean NASS members. Please look up the Monetisation Policy of 2003.
“Finally, anyone trained in negotiation skills knows that you don’t give your best offer first. That is why if something sells for an average of N100 and you tell me it’s N500, I will price you N10.
“When you reduce to N400, I will increase to N20…until we both decide to stop wasting each other’s time.
“I am ideologically opposed to strikes as a means of resolving labour disputes but we have ALWAYS had people negotiating for government on the basis of the offices they hold not because they have had any training in negotiation.”
