Tag: New Minimum Wage
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NEW MINIMUM WAGE: We are waiting for the chart – Oborevwori
Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, Tuesday, said the state government was waiting for the enabling chart to implement the new minimum wage. Governor Oborevwori disclosed this while addressing staff of the State House of Assembly during the retirement thanksgiving in honour of immediate past Clerk of the Assembly and now Principal Secretary to…
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BREAKING: President Tinubu signs new minimum wage bill into law
President Tinubu on Monday signed the new minimum wage bill into law days after the National Assembly had passed the bill. Details to follow……..
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‘It Is slave wage’ – Sowore reacts to ₦70,000 new minimum wage approved by Tinubu
Former African Action Congress presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore has criticized the N70,000 new minimum wage approved by President Bola Tinubu. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that Tinubu on Thursday announced the new minimum wage during a meeting held with leaders of the Trade Union Congress, TUC and the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC in Abuja. According to the statement…
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Ngige threatens to drag states not paying new minimum wage to court
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has faulted governors yet to pay the new minimum wage to workers in their states. Speaking on a monitored Channels Television programme on Sunday, the minister stated that any employer paying its employee below N30,000 was doing so in contravention of the law. “If you read…
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Labour gears up, set to war with ‘disobedient’ governors
Organized Labour on Friday said it was ready to go to war with any governor that fails to implement the N30,000 minimum wage and the consequential adjustment that follows for workers in their states. President Muhammadu Buhari signed the new minimum wage Act into law on April 18, 2019. Six months after Buhari signed the…
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Fayemi excites Ekiti Teachers, announces payment of N30, 000 new minimum wage from October
The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has said the state government would begin the implementation of the new minimum wage of N30,000 from this month. Fayemi said the decision was predicated on the need to improve the living standard of workers, especially teachers to be able to deliver the best and reposition the…
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Minimum Wage: Buhari summons emergency FEC meeting over labour’s strike threats
President Muhammadu Buhari has summoned a Special Federal Executive Council meeting over labour’s demand for a new minimum wage. The meeting might consider the draft Bill on the new wage structure before it is sent to the National Assembly. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has made the presentation of the Bill a precondition for shelving…
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Include N30, 000 ‘new minimum wage’ in your 2019 budgets, NLC tells governors
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has informed governors of the 36 states of the federation to include the payment of the new national minimum wage in their 2019 Appropriation Bills. Labour said doing so remained the only to avoid friction and crisis in the New Year, adding that the state governments are buoyant enough to…
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Buhari, Osinbajo, Governors resume talks on new minimum wage today
President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will today meet with governors of the thirty-six states of the federation to resume talks on the labour’s demand for a new minimum wage. The governors had earlier on Thursday met in Abuja but refused to brief reporters on what they discussed. They are billed also 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…