Tag: Labour
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BREAKING: Labour lowers minimum wage demand
In efforts to facilitate progress and ensure prompt resolution of the negotiations for the new national Minimum Wage, Organised Labour has adjusted its initial minimum wage request from N615,000 to N500,000.
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Our employers are comedians, their wages are a joke – By Owei Lakemfa
The government felt so sorry for the Nigeria worker that it decided to lighten his burden. After all, the welfare of the citizenry is a major reason why we have government. Even the heart of former President Muhammad Buhari – said to be stone hearted – melted on seeing the pitiful condition of the worker.…
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Minimum Wage: We stand on May 31 ultimatum – Labour
The Organised Labour has reiterated its May 31 ultimatum for the Federal Government to finalise the new national minimum wage fixing process for workers. The position was contained in a communique issued at the end of a joint emergency National Executive Council
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Minimum wage: Labour agrees to attend Tuesday talks
Organised Labour has agreed to attend the ”negotiation” meeting of Tripartite Committee on the Minimum Wage slated for Tuesday.
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No moral justification for stopping N35,000 wage award – Labour
The Organised Labour says there is no moral justification for the Federal Government to stop the payment of monthly N35,000 wage award to workers.
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May Day: Obi writes to Nigerian workers, says ‘I salute your resilience, I stand with you in your struggles’
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election Peter Obi has written to Nigeria Workers saluting their resilience and doggedness to ensure a better Nigeria. Obi said in the letter to mark the Worker’s Day that he stands in solidarity with the Workers in all their struggles. See letter below: “My…
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Budget 2024: Obi unearths more insensitive, undeserving allocations
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi has continued to uncover some undeserving budget allocations in the 2024 federal budget which says is concerning.
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Strike threat: Tinubu throws jab at Labour
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday urged the organised labour to make peace, saying it was unfair calling for strikes within just nine months of his administration. The president said this at the inauguration of the Red Line rail in Lagos,
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FG has delivered 90% of agreements with Labour – Minister of Labour, Nkiruka Onyejeocha,
Nkiruka Onyejeocha, Nigeria’s Minister of Labour has said that Federal Government has achieved about 90% of the agreement it had with the Organised Labour last October. Onyejeocha said the Federal Government had ticked about 90% of the 15-point memorandum of understanding it signed with the Organised Labour on October 2, 2023.
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Looming strike: We can’t implement all agreements reached with labour at once — FG declares
The federal government has declared that some of the agreements it reached with the members of the organised labour during the October 2023 negotiation meeting cannot be implemented at a go. The government specifically explained that one of the agreements, which is setting up of conversion centres for Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) would take some…