The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria has rejected “outrightly” the new National Minimum Wage of N27,000 recommended by the National Council of State.
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The Nigeria Labour Congress has rejected the N27,000 new National Minimum Wage adopted by the National Council of State on Tuesday.
Ngige disclosed this while speaking with State House correspondents after the National Economic Council meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Thursday.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that the extraordinary meeting of the Federal Executive Council on National Minimum Wage had been postponed until after the National Economic Council’s deliberation on the matter.
The Chairman of the committee, Hon. Ezenwa Onyewuchi, made the remark in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja.
Ayuba Wabba, NLC President, in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja, said the threat was not new.
Labour’s position is coming against the backdrop of the information from the Presidency and the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that President Buhari, contrary to media reports, was yet to approve the proposal of the Ama People-led tripartite committee for the least paid worker to earn N30,000.
The Federal Government says President Muhammadu Buhari will study the report of the Tripartite Committee on the Review of National Minimum Wage before making his view known to Nigerians.
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has told the President Muhammadu Buhari Administration that a government must be trusted to keep its word.
A presidential source, who preferred not to be named, said the President did not endorse N30,000 as proposed by the committee as being reported by some sections of the media
Buhari said this in Abuja on Tuesday while receiving the report of the Tripartite Committee on the Review of National Minimum Wage from the committee’s chairman, Amal Pepple at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
In the past few days, I have been receiving regular updates on your deliberations. And today, I am pleased that you have completed your work in a peaceful and non-confrontational manner.
The report was presented to President Buhari on Tuesday evening by the Chairperson of the Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage, Ama People
Ayuba Wabba, the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, spoke to newsmen at the end of the Tripartite Committee meeting on the new National Minimum Wage on Tuesday in Abuja
The Trade Union Congress, Nigeria Labour Congress and United Labour Congress have threatened to embark on strike over the issue of National Minimum Wage.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has said conciliation on the National Minimum Wage will continue despite the injunction of the National Industrial Court restraining organized labour from embarking on strike.
The observation was contained in his presidential address presented at St Mary’s Church, Isseke in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State during the second session of the third synod of the diocese
The Nigeria Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture has denied claims by the Organised Labour that the Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage agreed on N30,000 for the country.
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum on Tuesday agreed to pay a national minimum wage of N22,500 from the existing N18,000.
Ayuba Wabba, President, Nigeria Labour Congress, said this at a protest rally tagged: ‘National Day of Mourning and Outrage’ organised by NLC, Trade Union Congress and the United Labour Congress on Tuesday in Abuja.