The Senate and the National Council for Women Society (NCWS) have called for domestic servants to be included in the proposed N70,000 National Minimum Wage Scheme.
This initiative was discussed during a public hearing at the National Assembly in Abuja, focusing on a bill for the domestication and registration of domestic workers and employers in Nigeria.
Senator Osita Izunaso (APC, Imo West) spearheaded the call, emphasizing that domestic workers should be covered under the same minimum wage law as public workers. Senator Babangida Hussaini (APC, Jigawa North West) sponsored the bill, and Senator Diket Plang (APC, Plateau Central), chair of the Senate Committee on Employment, Labour, and Productivity, chaired the hearing.
Mrs. Geraldeen Etuk, acting National President of NCWS, also supported the inclusion of domestic workers in the minimum wage law.
Senator Plang mentioned that an agency would be established to implement the proposed law, initially overseen by the Ministry of Labour and Productivity.
Source: Punch