The Federal Government will now pay corp members at least N30,000 as monthly allowance due to the signing of the new national minimum wage bill.
Zainab Ahmed, the minister for finance revealed that the government is working out the modalities of the new minimum wage.
In her speech,
"Apart from the increase of the minimum wage from N18,000 to N30,000, there is also a consequential adjustment that we have to negotiate with the labour unions.
"The total implication of that would be worked out only after the negotiations and that would involve determining how much increase every other employees above the minimum wage would get.
"It could be a flat amount or a proportion, but the other aspect that is clear is that there would be an increase for the National Youth Service Corps as well because, by the Act, they should earn at least the minimum wage and the NYSC also has to increase to that N30,000."
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