2021 Salah message: employers owing workers salary have misplaced sense of judgement-NLC

By allcitynews.ng

Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba has likened owning of workers’ salary to trampling on the sacrifice made by workers.

Just as the labour centre noted that any employers owing workers salary has misplaced sense of judgement.

According to Wabba, “Employers hold workers in contempt and trample upon the sacrifice they make when they owe workers arrears of salaries and deny them the minimum wage. Employers scorn and dismiss the labour of the working class as scotched toil when workers are denied the right to benefit from the dividends of their own investment in productivity.

While congratulating Muslims brothers and sisters on this year’s Salah stressed that
“Employers who deny workers social protection benefits regard workers as no better than slaves. Elected political office holders who believe that paying workers their salaries as when due is a misplaced priority have a misplaced sense of judgement.”

According to him, the union has in recent times witnessed increasing waves of hostility, scorn and contempt on the labour and sacrifice of Nigerian workers by some elected political office holders. “Despite earning some of the lowest wages in Africa, Nigerian workers are usually the first to be laid off en masse and at the drop of a hat. We want to use the opportunity of this year’s Eid-el-Kabir to appeal to the conscience of employers in Nigeria to show some respect for workers’ sacrifice. Workers are not slaves to be used, sapped,
and tossed aside.

“Workers are partners in progress. Our labour moves society forward. Nigerian workers deserve not just the minimum wage but living wages. We demand wage justice now! State Governors yet to fully implement the national minimum wage and the consequential salary increase belong to the league of politicians who pour contempt and scorn on the sacrifice of Nigerian workers.”