Tag: TUC
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Minimum wage: Labour unions praise Buhari, task him on quick implementation
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) asked employers of labour, especially states and federal government to immediately commence the implementation of the N30,000 minimum wage following the signing into law of the minimum wage bill by the President. The unions in separate statements commended the President for signing…
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Hamonise minimum wage for quick assent – TUC tells NASS
Mr Bobboi Kaigama, the President of Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), on Monday called for quick hamonisation of the N30,000 national minimum wage bill to enable President Muhammadu Buhari assent to it. Kaigama spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on the implementation of the new minimum wage. NAN reports that…
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Strike: Asaba residents storm banks, markets
Residents of Asaba and Okpanam in Delta on Monday besieged banks and the markets to collect money and store food ahead of Tuesday proposed nationwide strike by workers. Following the deadlock between labour leaders and the Federal Government over minimum wage, the unions insisted on the indefinite strike. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union…
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New Minimum Wage: We’ll resume talks with NLC, TUC on Sunday – Ngige
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, says conciliation on the national minimum wage will continue on Sunday despite the court injunction restraining organised labour from embarking on strike. The National Industrial Court had on Friday ordered the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) labour not to go ahead with the…
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New Minimum Wage: Court stops NLC, TUC’s Nov 6 planned strike
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria has ordered the organised labour, comprising the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress not to embark on its indefinite strike scheduled to commence on November 6. Justice Sanusi Kado, on Friday, gave the order in a ruling on an ex parte application moved on behalf of the…
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Minimum Wage: Organised Labour threatens nationwide strike Nov. 6
The Organised Labour says it will embark on nationwide strike on November 6, if the Federal Government fails to meet its demand on the new National Minimum Wage of N30,000 agreed upon. Mr Ayuba Wabba, President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) made this known in a statement signed with its counterparts, Mr Bobbio Kaigama, President, Trade…
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Ekiti salary crisis: NLC, TUC impose 10-year ban on two Labour leaders
…Unions remain dissolved,’ says banned officials Crisis rocking the Labour movement in Ekiti State deepened on Monday as the state councils of the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress (TUC) imposed a ten-year ban on immediate past chairmen, Mr. Ayodeji Aluko and Mr. Kolawole Olaiya, from trade unionism. The ten-year ban was imposed on…
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Workers to know new minimum wage in August – TUC
The President of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), Mr Bobboi Kaigama, announced on Wednesday that a new amount agreed on by the Federal Government and labour to serve as Nigeria’s new minimum wage would be announced next month. Bobboi, who made the disclosure in an interview with the labour newsmen in Lagos, said…
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Strike: Cross River threatens no work no pay
Cross Rivers state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Barr. Joe Abang, has said the State will invoke the no work no pay policy of the federal government over a planned strike by Ministry of Justice workers. TheNewsGuru reports workers in the state ministry of justice under the aegis of Law Officers Association of Nigeria…
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Rivers Govt. gives N3.6 billion to SMEs, civil servants
The Rivers state government has approved an annual interest-free loan disbursement to the tune of N3,600,000,000.00 (three billion, six hundred thousand naira) for small businesses and civil servants in the State. The State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, made this known in an address during the 2018 Workers Day celebrations in Port Harcourt, where he also…