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Minimun wage: Onaiyekan says wage not best for low income earners

Minimun wage: Onaiyekan says wage not best for low income earners

BTS MEDIA 
November 28,2018 

The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, says the proposed minimum wage by the organised labour will not help low-income earners to meet their basic needs.
Onaiyekan made this known at the first National Catechetical Summit, on Thursday, in Abuja.
He said that there was need for the minimum wage to be approached in a way it would benefit both low and higher wage earners.
“The whole issue of minimum wage has been so problematic in Nigeria.
“Whenever the minimum wage is increased, it is not the low-income earners that gain, but the senior workers along the ladder who earn bigger salaries.
“It should be done in such a way that it really targets those who need it and not be used as an excuse, to increase the wage of those who are not within the minimum wage,” he said.
The clergy called on the Catholic Church in Nigeria to consider full-time remuneration along with the new minimum wage for catechists as their priority of diocesan budgets.
“As Catholics let’s not forget that the catechists give information to the Christian in his daily life and it is a major task which belongs to the whole church.
“If we neglect this task, we pay heavily in terms of the shallow faith of our Catholics, who are unable to stand their grounds against all kinds of attacks.
“The new sets of catechists that lie ahead will need to be properly funded.
“Our local churches will need to put the funding of catechists much higher on our priority of diocesan budgets.
This should be as important as building the churches and erecting lavish rectories,” he said.

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