Minimum wage

Edo Begins Payment Of N70,000 Minimum Wage

Edo state workers have begun to enjoy an upscale salary scheme of N70,000 new minimum wage unlike their counterparts in Abia State who furthered their lamentation on Sunday. Chris Nehikhare, the Edo State Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, in a…

New minimum wage and the informal sector

The Minimum Wage Act of 2019 signed by former President Muhammadu Buhari set the amount at N30,000. Five years later, not all governors are paying the current wage award which expired in April. The Act is to be reviewed every…

Minimum wage: Labour agrees to attend Tuesday talks

The Organised Labour has agreed to attend the “negotiation” meeting of the Tripartite Committee on the Minimum Wage slated for Tuesday. The Vice President of the Trade Union Congress, Mr Etim Okon, confirmed this in an interview on Monday in…

Minimum wage: FG, Organised Labour to meet today

…As NLC tells committee to perish offer below N615,000 The Federal Government and the Organised Labour have been scheduled to meet today to resume negotiations on the new minimum wage. Recall that the Organised Labour comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress…