Tag: minimum wage
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Minimum wage: Again, NLC threatens strike action if…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Friday directed its members to be ready to take appropriate actions should the National Assembly fail to do the needful by affirming N30,000 as the new national minimum wage at state and federal levels. It said the National Assembly should uphold the recommendation of the tripartite committee which specified…
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Reps back Council of State, approves N30,000 Minimum Wage for Federal Workers
The House of Representative has on Thursday debated and approved the new minimum wage of N30,000 as provided for in the New Minimum Wage Bill 2019 sent to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari. This followed the heated debate on the proposed legislation by President Buhari which was sent to the lawmakers and was…
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CNPP begs labour to accept newly approved minimum wage
The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties ( CNPP ), Edo chapter, has appealed to the Nigeria Labour Congress ( NLC ) to accept the N27, 000 new minimum wage endorsed by the National Council of State. The Chairman of CNPP, Mr Roy Oribhabor, made the appeal on Wednesday in Benin. He urged the NLC to…
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Council of State approves N27,000 minimum wage for states
…Approves N30,000 for federal workers This amount is for the least paid workers in the states and the private sector. However, Federal Government workers will take home N30,000 as their minimum wage. The Council arrived at this decision at its meeting in Abuja on Tuesday. The Minister of Labour, Dr Chris Ngige, has just confirmed…
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Senate speaks on approval of Minimum Wage Bill before 2019 elections
Senate Leader, Ahmad Lawan, has said the National Assembly will give priority to the 2019 budget upon resumption. Lawan also noted that the lawmakers will give priority to the passage of the minimum wage bill upon. He said this on Tuesday in an interview with the press in Abuja where he added that “We should…
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FG fixes Jan 23 for transmission of Minimum Wage Bill to NASS
The Federal Government has fixed January 23, 2019, to transmit the new Minimum Wage Bill to the National Assembly with a view to fast-tracking the implementation of a new wage structure for Nigerian workers. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, confirmed this to journalists on Tuesday after a meeting with the leadership of…
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Okowa, Ganduje, Ayade agree to pay N30,000 minimum wage
Sequel to the Tuesday nationwide protest by Nigerian workers, governors, Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta; Ben Ayade of Cross River State and Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano has pledged to support the N30,000 minimum wage demand by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC). The governors made the pledge in their respective states in reaction to protesting workers under…
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Minimum Wage: Nigerian workers protest, decry poor living conditions [Photos]
The Nigeria Labour Congress ( NLC ) has embarked on a nationwide protest today ahead of the commencement of an indefinite strike. The protest rally was to create awareness on the new Minimum Wage for workers and to press home its demand for an executive draft bill on the N30,000 minimum wage to be transmitted…
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Minimum wage : FG, abour to reconvene Wednesday
The Federal Government says the meeting with the Organised Labour to prevent the threat of national industrial action over non transmission of the New National Minimum Wage Bill to the National Assembly will reconvene by 1p.m on Tuesday. Sen. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, said this while speaking with newsmen at the end…
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Minimum Wage: NLC postpones strike, to hold nationwide protest Tuesday
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says it will on Tuesday hold a nationwide protest to drive its demand for the upward review of the national minimum wage from N18,000 to N30,000. The General Secretary of the NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, said in a statement that there would be no strike for now. Ozo-Eson, therefore, asked…