Liberia: Tengbeh Pushes Bold Wage Reform Bill to Overhaul Liberia’s Decent Work Act

MONROVIA — Labour advocate George S. Tengbeh, founder and chief executive officer of the Liberia Labour and Governance Alliance (LILGA), has drafted the Proposed Wage Reform and Decent Work (Amendment) Bill of 2025, a sweeping effort to overhaul Chapter 16, Section 16 of the 2015 Decent Work Act governing Liberia’s private-sector minimum wage.

Tengbeh said the current law is “symbolic rather than functional,” arguing that it lacks the institutional backbone needed to ensure fair wages,…