The Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde on Wednesday, November 6, 2024, approved a minimum wage of N80,000 for workers in the state workforce.
The state’s Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Dotun Oyelade, said that the technical committee set up by the state government recommended N80,000 as minimum wage.
“The recommendation of the committee got approval from the governor for the implementation of the new salary scale.
“This new scale will be implemented as soon as the consequential adjustments process is completed by the committee which comprises government and top labour officials,” he stated.
The commissioner further stated that an agency of the Federal Government, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), recently in its 2024 employment statistics rated Oyo State as the most worker-friendly state.
His words, “The state was rated as the most worker-friendly state in the whole of South-West.
“This NBS rating was as a result of the significant decline in Oyo state unemployment rate following a series of high-pitched employment of workers into various sectors of the state,” he said.
Mr Oyelade also said that workers in the state have always received their salaries on the 25th of every month since Mr Makinde came into office in 2019.
He added that the Makinde-led administration had paid the backlog of gratuities from 2008 to 2015 for pensioners with an increase in gratuity payment.
