Late Payment of Workers Monthly Salaries Risk One Month Jail Term – Reps

Workers salaries delayed, underpayment of wages, pensions, and other emoluments bill have passed second reading by the House of Representatives.

The law which forbids underpayment of workers wages, pensions, and other emoluments, as well as late payment of workers salaries, will now attract one month imprisonment for violators.

Following the discussion of the workers law’s overall philosophy, the second reading of the bill supported by the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, was approved on Tuesday.

The measure aims to make it illegal for workers to owe wages and other benefits. Such employers are subject to the punishments outlined in the statute. For instance, if wages are unpaid for more than 60 days, the employer faces a 30-day jail sentence.

Every employer of labour in Nigeria, whether private or public, and whether it is employing workers on a permanent or contract basis, is required to make sure that all payments of wages, salaries, pensions, and other benefits to workers are made promptly without delay weekly, fortnightly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly as may be agreed upon by parties in the contract of employment of the additional individuals, according to Section 2 of the bill.

In addition, the bill forbids using an unfair or severe deduction as punishment for an employee’s negligence or damage.

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Section 3(1) says “an employer is prohibited from entering into any contract with workman for any deduction from the sum contracted to be paid by the employer to the workman, or any payment to the employer by the workers for in respect of bad negligent work or injury to the material or property of the employer or in respect of any fine.”

Since the bill was not discussed, it was referred to the committee of the whole.

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