The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Friday, August 16, said that it would not accept the N35,000 wage award by the Lagos State Government in lieu of the newly approved N70,000 minimum wage.

Funmi Sessi, the chairman of NLC Lagos State chapter expressed concern over a statement from a commission that the state was already paying more than N70,000 prescribed minimum wage to its employees.

Calling for a new wage structure in the state – starting from the approved N70,000 minimum wage – Sessi said the new structure should be fashioned out in such a way that it would reflect various cadre and salary grade levels of all categories of workers in the state’s public service as it reflected in all the allowances.

The NLC further urged the Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu to constitute a wage committee to look into the immediate implementation of the N70,000 to all categories of public servants in the state.

She said, “NLC commends the state Governor Sanwo-Olu for his commitment to the welfare of workers as evident in the state being the first to implement the N35,000 wage award palliative to public servants in the nation.

“Alluding to the N35,000 palliative wage award as part of the calculated earned income in the state is not the true situation since the wage award does not reflect on the allowances,” she noted