Organised Labour Insists On N250,000 Minimum Wage For Nigerian Workers
He acknowledged that the benchmark remained the correct accepted for bettering the living situations of workers across the nation.
The Change Union Congress (TUC) has reiterated its anticipate of for a N250,000 minimum wage for Nigerian workers.
The TUC president, Festus Osifo, on Tuesday, disclosed this on the inaugural Annual Convention of the Petroleum and Pure Gasoline Senior Workers Affiliation of Nigeria Ladies Rate in Abuja, themed “The Dynamic Girl: Navigating Challenges in a Continuously Evolving World.”
He acknowledged that the benchmark remained the correct accepted for bettering the living situations of workers across the nation.
Osifo explained that both the TUC and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) are currently engaged in discussions with Nigerian authorities officials to be triumphant in a consensus on the unique minimum wage.
Fixed with him, “Negotiations on the unique minimum wage like now not been abandoned, reasonably labour and the authorities like been dazzling-tuning the topic.
“The minimum wage negotiations can’t be dull. The 2019 minimum wage (that has expired) took about two years to scrutinize the sunshine of day. We started the negotiations in 2017.
“We promised you after we started in January (this yr) that we are going to guarantee this one is lickety-split – tracked for us to now not be in the conundrum that we like been in 2019 which took two years.
He acknowledged that the minimum wage explain became once being addressed and talked about that the President desired extra consultations sooner than presenting it to the National Meeting.
“So the put we are this present day, we submitted the divergent field in June, after we did that you simply realize clearly that Mr President got right here out to claim that he desired to confer with across board which is the governors, Native Executive chairmen, organised non-public sector and labour, so we are doing a microscopic level of attain-out and conversations.
“So that what would possibly maybe be submitted to the National Meeting will undoubtedly be a minimum wage that would possibly maybe cater for the poorest of the terrible, so for the truth that in the media we aren’t shouting, we are doing a microscopic level of inner work so that this invoice would possibly maybe be submitted in earnest soon. We gathered divulge on the N250,000 benchmark as ultimate minimum wage,” he acknowledged.
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