Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has reiterated its demand for a N250,000 minimum wage for workers in Nigeria.
The TUC president, Festus Osifo, on Tuesday,
disclosed this at the inaugural Annual Convention of the Petroleum and Natural
Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Women Commission in Abuja, themed
"The Dynamic Woman: Navigating Challenges in a Constantly Evolving
World."
Osifo also stated that TUC and the Nigeria Labour Congress were meeting
with officials of the Federal Government to reach an agreement on the minimum
wage.
The Federal Government and Organised
Private Sector have agreed on N62,000 as the new minimum wage, but labour is
insisting on N250, 000.
According to him, "Negotiations on the new minimum wage have not
been abandoned, rather labour and the government were fine-tuning the matter.
“The minimum wage negotiations cannot be
dead. The 2019 minimum wage (that has expired) took about two years to see the
light of day. We started the negotiations in 2017.
“We promised you when we started in January
(this year) that we will ensure this one is fast – tracked for us not to be in
the conundrum that we were in 2019 which took two years,” the TUC president
stated.
“So where we are today, we submitted the
divergent position in June, when we did that you know clearly that Mr.
President came out to say that he wanted to consult across board which is the
governors, Local Government chairmen, organised private sector, and labour, so
we are doing some level of reach-out and conversations.
“So that what will be submitted to the National Assembly will actually be a
minimum wage that will cater for the poorest of the poor, so for the fact that
in the media we are not shouting, we are doing some level of internal work so
that this bill will be submitted in earnest soon. We still insist on the
N250,000 benchmark as ideal minimum wage,” Osifo stated.
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