New minimum wage: Why we will reject figure less than N250,000, labour speaks

• The NLC has issued a stable warning to the federal executive sooner than the announcement of a brand contemporary national minimum wage
• The labour union insisted that it would reject any amount supplied by Tinubu’s executive that is never any longer as much as N250,000 as the salaries of Nigerian workers
• NLC disclosed this after Tinubu launched that a consensus had been reached on the prolonged-debated contemporary minimum wage between the federal executive and organised labour

Legit.ng journalist Esther Odili has over two years of journey protecting political parties and movements.

The management of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said this can no longer procure a brand contemporary minimum wage of no longer as much as N250,000.

Joe Ajaero’s led NLC maintained that organised labour did no longer agree on any particular resolve as the contemporary minimum wage.

The NLC made this disclosure while reacting to President Tinubu’s claims that an settlement had been reached on contemporary national minimum wages.

Legit.ng remembers President Tinubu announcing the conclusion of negotiations on the contemporary minimum wage with organised labour and the non-public sector in his nationwide broadcast to mark Democracy Day.

President Bola Tinubu printed that an executive bill to formalise the contemporary minimum wage settlement will soon be despatched to the Nationwide Meeting.

NLC insists quiz remains N250,000

But reacting by a commentary, the performing president of the NLC, Prince Adewale Adeyanju, said there become no settlement reached by the tripartite committee on the national minimum wage on the time negotiations ended on Friday, June 7, 2024, Each day Have confidence reported.

Adeyanju particularly eminent that organised labour become no longer interesting grounds regarding its N250,000 minimum wage quiz proposed to the Nigerian executive, The Nigerian Tribune reported.

“Our quiz aloof remains N250,000 (two hundred and fifty thousand Naira) finest and now we contain got no longer been given any compelling reasons to alternate this draw which we take into yarn a enormous concession by Nigerian workers all the plan via the tripartite negotiation job,” Adeyanju said.

Tinubu’s decision on the minimum wage legend will resolve labour’s next motion as the federal executive supplied to pay workers N62,000.

Minimum wage: FG sends message to labour

Legit.ng earlier reported that the federal executive urged the labour unions to be realistic of their quiz for a brand contemporary minimum wage for physique of workers.

FG eminent that the relief Nigerians are awaiting will no longer approach finest within the develop of an elevate in wages however from a form of packages lined up by the manager.

The minister of Recordsdata and Nationwide Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this to journalists on the opening of the 2024 Synod of the Charismatic Bishops Convention of Nigeria in Abuja on Wednesday.

Proofreading by Nkem Ikeke, journalist and duplicate editor at Legit.ng.

Source: Legit.ng