Minimum Wage: Ekiti JNC boss assures quick implementation

From Victor Akinkuolie, Ado-Ekiti
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The Chairman, Ekiti State Joint Negotiating Council (JNC), Kayode Fatomiluyi has given an assurance that the council would take as a priority the need for quick implementation of the new minimum wage for workers by the state government.

Fatomiluyi, who is also the Chairman, National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives in Ekiti State, said welfare and better living conditions of public servants would occupy the attention of the council under his watch, assuring that “positive results would be achieved by engaging the state government in robust negotiations”.

The labour leader, who spoke at the weekend in Ado-Ekiti during his inauguration as the JNC Chairman, Ekiti state chapter, advised workers in the state to focus on issues that would foster unity among them rather than character assassination and divisive tendencies.

Fatomiluyi, who debunked the insinuation in some quarters that he was a government candidate, said: “Rather, I am a worker-oriented and popular labour leader with the total supports of all the eight industrial unions as demonstrated during the election.

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, represented by his Senior Special Assistant on Labour Matters, Chief Oluyemi Esan, who inaugurated the new JNC leadership, urged unity of purpose among workers in the state.

Fayemi, who reiterated the administration’s labour-friendliness, expressed readiness for issues that would promote workers’ welfare, assuring that he would partner labour to move the state forward.