Civil servants pay more taxes than increase in minimum wage — NLC
THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has took a swipe at the tax regime of President Bola Tinubu’s administration, saying workers in the country now pay more taxes than what they receive from the recently increased minimum wage. It also also recommended to the International Labour Organisation, ILO, payment of a universal wage system and universal condition of service for workers. It accused the Federal Government of not honouring products of collective bargaining, adding that social safety net was almost zero in the country. This is as the Director General of the ILO, Gilbert Houngbo, said lasting peace would only be possible through social justice. Speaking at the Tripartite Panel on Global Coalition for Social Justice at the UN House in Abuja, the NlC President, Joe Ajaero, faulted the claims by some of the representatives of the federal government that the economic policies had started to show positive signs. He said: “We are in this hall and somebody is telling us that the economic p...