Tag: minimum wage
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Minimum wage: FG, Labour meeting inconclusive, to reconvene on Monday
Negotiation between the Federal Government and organized labour on the N30,000 minimum wage remained inconclusive at the end of another round of meeting last night in Abuja. Both sides are scheduled to reconvene on Monday to take a final decision on the grey areas. Labour Minister, Chris Ngige, told reporters at the end of a…
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Minimum wage: Labour begins consultation, mobilisation ahead of Tuesday’s strike
The organised labour on Friday said it has started mobilisation of members ahead of the January 8 strike over payment of the agreed N30,000 New Minimum Wage. A News Agency of Nigeria correspondent who visited some of the labour unions in Lagos gathered that workers had been informed on the strategic roles to play while…
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Minimum Wage: Mobilise for indefinite national strike, NLC tells workers
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has pledged commitment to workers welfare while appealing to the Federal Government to urgently transmit the bill on the new national minimum wage to the National Assembly. Ayuba Wabba, NLC president, made the appeal in a New Year message on Tuesday in Abuja. According to him, 2018 remains one of…
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Minimum Wage: NGF insists on N22,500, says N30,000 ‘neither realistic nor sustainable’
The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has said the N30,000 minimum wage demand of labour unions is “neither realistic nor sustainable.” The NGF however said, states should pay a minimum wage of N22,500 but any governor who can pay more than this is free to do so. The forum also said insinuations by the Nigeria Labour…
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Minimum wage: Blame FG if we embark on another strike – NLC
The Nigeria Labour Congress on Monday said Nigerians should not blame the union for the looming industrial chaos in January owing to what it perceived as the silence of President Muhammadu Buhari over the N30,000 minimum wage. The union also knocked Buhari for his proposed establishment of a technical committee to look into the minimum…
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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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Presidency set to present minimum wage bill to NASS, says Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari says a bill on implementation of the New Minimum Wage would soon be sent to the National Assembly for passage. Buhari made this known while presenting the 2019 Budget before the joint session of the National Assembly on Wednesday. He assured that he was committed to addressing the minimum wage issue, saying…
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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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Minimum wage will determine workers’ voting pattern in 2019 elections – NLC
The National Minimum Wage will determine the voting pattern by Nigerian workers in the 2019 general elections, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said. Its General Secretary, Dr Peter Ozo-Eson, spoke in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja. Ozo-Eson said that this was due to the delay by…
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Minimum wage: Reps demand Tripartite agreement report from Pres. Buhari
By Gabriel Okoro, Abuja The House of Representatives has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to transmit the Tripartite Agreement on National Minimum Wage to the National Assembly for legislation, to avert the looming industrial action threatened by organized labour, with the potential of paralyzing the nation’s socio-economic and political activities- and its attendant costs. The…