The Senate alongside National Council for Women Society (NCWS) have sought for consideration of domestic servants in the proposed N70,000 National Minimum Wage Plan.
This was featured during a formal review by the Senate Committee on Employment, Labour, and Productivity on a bill for an Act to Provide for Domestication and Registration of Domestic Workers and Employers in Nigeria.
The Senator representing Imo West Osita Izunaso alongside the Acting National President of NCWS Geraldeen Etuk particularly contended for the consideration of domestic servants in the proposed National Minimum Wage law and stated that part of the provisions to be implanted in the bill is the consideration of domestic workers in the proposed N70,000 National Minimum Wage Law, for implementation by all employers.
“As a member of this committee, I feel strongly that part of the provisions to be included in this bill is to include the domestic workers be it housemaid or servants, in the proposed N70,000 National Minimum Wage Law,” Senator Izunaso said.
“As N70,000 is being planned to be the lowest wage for the lowest public workers, so should be the case for the least domestic workers. We are going to put it in the bill for implementation by all employers.”
The Chairman of the Committee Senator Diket Plang likewise noted that an agency will be set up for execution of the proposed law. The operations, he says, will be driven by the Ministry of Labour and Productivity.
