Talks to reach a compromise on a new minimum wage for workers in the public service have been deadlocked as organised Labour, again walked out of the meeting. Sources attending the meeting said the government failed to propose an amount…
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, has appealed to organised labour to be considerate and patriotic in their demands in the ongoing negotiation for a new national minimum wage. Onyejeocha made the appeal in a statement…
The Federal Government has added a sum of N3,000 to its initially proposed N57,000 minimum wage, making it the sum of N60,000 proposed on Tuesday during a meeting of the tripartite committee on minimum wage in Abuja. Organised labour, comprising…
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…
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…
The meeting between the Tripartite National Minimum Wage meeting and the Organised hit a brick wall again as both parties failed to reach an agreement on the new wage. Recall that last Wednesday, the NLC National President, Joe Ajaero rejected…
The ongoing negotiations on new minimum wage has been adjourned till Wednesday after the organised labour rejected the new N54,000 minimum wage proposal by the Federal Government, a highly reliable source who attended the meeting told our correspondent on Wednesday.…
The organised labour comprising of the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress, on Monday, ordered state chapters to issue two weeks ultimatum to states that have failed to implement the old N30,000 minimum wage. The NLC and TUC took…
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…
…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…
