Tag: Labour
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Minimum Wage: Labour issues Dec 31 deadline to submit committee report to NASS
…kicks against Buhari’s fresh review Labour on Thursday said the federal government has before or on December 31 to send the tripartite committee report on N30,000 minimum wage to the National Assembly. The three labour centres, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the United Labour Congress (ULC) took the decision after…
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Oshiomhole backs labour, insists FG, governors can afford N30,000 minimum wage
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, has backed the organised labour’s agitation that N30,000 should be the national minimum wage for Nigerian workers. He also stressed that as a member of the Nigeria Governors Forum when he was the governor of Edo State, he had told his colleagues publicly that “when…
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Labour to demand two years arrears of new minimum wage
Labour on Wednesday said it would demand for two years arrears payment of the proposed new national minimum wage for Nigerian workers from the federal and state governments. The president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Ayuba Wabba, said this when Rosa Pavanelli, general secretary, Public Service International (PSI), visited him in his office in…
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BREAKING: Nigerian governors call for emergency meeting over minimum wage
Nigerian governors under the auspices of the Nigeria Governors Forum have called for an emergency meeting where the issue of the minimum wage is expected to be discussed in Abuja tonight. It is expected that the meeting, which will be presided over by the Governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, will take a definite…
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Saraki appeals to FG, labour over proposed strike
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has appealed to both the Federal Government and the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)/Trade Union Congress (TUC) to work together in order to avert the proposed workers’ strike in the interest of Nigeria. Saraki, in a statement by his Special Adviser (Media and Publicity), Yusuph Olaniyonu, urged…
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Minimum Wage: FG, Labour reach truce, figure to be released today
Labour leaders, who have called off a planned nationwide strike, have agreed a new national minimum wage at the end of negotiations with a Tripartite Committee, set up by the Federal government. The agreed figure will be kept under wraps until 4.15 pm on Tuesday, when it will be revealed in a report to be…
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Minimum wage: Buhari begs NLC to shelve proposed strike
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday appealed to the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress to consider the rot his administration inherited. Buhari made the appeal when he received members of the Association of Retired Career Ambassadors of Nigeria led by Ambassador Oladapo Fafowora at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The appeal came barely 24 hours to…
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Why we can’t pay labour’s N30,000 new minimum wage demand – FG
The federal government on Sunday gave reasons why it cannot meet the demand of labour unions that the national minimum wage be increased to N30,000. The labour unions, NLC, TUC and ULC, have vowed to commence a nationwide strike from Tuesday if government does not meet its demand. The workers unions accuse the government of…
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Labour & Wage Increases: Barking up the Wrong Tree!, By Henry Boyo
By Henry Boyo President Buhari established a Tripartite Committee in Dec. 2017 – comprising Labour Leaders, Federal and State Government representatives, to consider and recommend an appropriate increase on the present N18,000/month, National Minimum Wage, which became effective from 2011. Ultimately, however, by Oct. 2018, after protracted negotiations, over several months, there is still no…
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New Minimum Wage: Labour insists on Nov 6 nationwide strike despite court ruling
The Organised Labour has insisted on embarking on a nationwide strike over the non-implementation of N30, 000 as the new National Minimum Wage, in spite of the National Industrial Court ruling in Abuja. Mr Ayuba Wabba, President, Nigeria Labour Congress President, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in…