Tuesday, June 11, 2024 -The organised labour has said there is no way it would accept N100, 000 as minimum wage.
This is as the 37-member Tripartite
Committee on National Minimum Wage on Monday, June 10, submitted its report to
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu after about five months of sittings.
The organised Labour had gone on strike on
Monday, June 3, but suspended it for a week on Tuesday, June 4, after the
federal government pleaded for negotiation.
The Secretary to the Government of the
Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume, then summoned labour leaders to an
emergency meeting after the strike.
At the end of the meeting, it was disclosed
that representatives of the federal government and the private sector in the
tripartite committee for the negotiation of a new minimum wage proposed N62,
000, while the organised labour scaled down from N494, 000 to N250, 000.
Speaking on Monday, June 10, President of
NLC, Joe Ajaero, said there will be no protest or industrial action for now
over the new minimum wage.
Ajaero revealed this in an interview
with selected journalists in Geneva, Switzerland, during the ongoing
International Labour Conference.
He said reports of the tripartite committee
had been submitted to President Tinubu.
He added that the organised labour could not
embark on strike on Tuesday, June 11, because they would have to wait for the
president to consider the figures submitted by the tripartite committee on
minimum wage before further action could be taken.
Ajaero said: “The tripartite committee
submitted two figures to the president. Government and employers proposed N62,
000 while labour proposed N250, 000. We are waiting for the decision of the
president.
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