Government would announce the new minimum
The Federal Government
would announce the
webapex.net new minimum wage for workers in the country within the next
few hours, following an agreement with labour unions and the government
committee last Friday.
According to reports,
the committe
westernmagazine.org e is set to present the agreed N30,000 recommendation to President
Muhammadu Buhari.
More so, a reliable
source disclosed that the minimum wage may be between N25,000 and N30,000
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owing the outcome of the two-day meeting with organised labour.
Organised Labour agreed
on a miminum wage of N30,000 after so much arguments and face-off between its
representatives and government.
The source also added
that government had come up with N24,000 minimum wage which organised labour
rejected.
“This may be because
they want to be in agreement with the Organised Private Sector who had proposed
N25,000, but Labour refused and told them that it was unacceptable” he said.
Federal Government had
to make efforts in meeting with organised labour, over its failure to reach an
agreement with the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige led committee, which led to
the seven-day warning strike penultimate week after the expiration of a 14-day
ultimatum.
However, the strike was
suspended after assurance from the government that they are willing to
negotiate further with labour. Labour had proposed N66,500 during the meeting
with FG but was latee scaled down to N38,000.
The source explained
further that it was the Organised Private Sector that now played the role of an
arbiter by adjusting the figure to N30,000.
He stated, “The
Organised Labour were not particularly happy with it, but it is negotiation and
believed that it was not too bad, it is a figure that we can work with.
“But one can see that
the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, seems not too happy
with the figure as his countenance expressed, but that is not our concern. That
was the decision of the committee.”
He added that, “the
government of the day knows the implications of toying with the workers demand.
This is a very sensitive period as opponent may offer to pay as high as
N40,000.”
He concluded by saying
labour would not accept anything below the N30,000 submitted by the committee.
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