As a parting shot for year 2018, Nigerian governors on Monday reiterated their rejection of the demand by the Nigerian Labour Congress for the payment of ₦30,000 as minimum wage to workers, insisting that they had other competing needs to contain with and would therefore not use more than 50 percent of their income for […]
Read More Local government workers in Zamfara state are according to report receive ₦6,000 per month (less than $20), as minimum wage, making them the worst paid in Nigeria. Ibrahim Khaleel, National President Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) made the sensational revelation in Abuja, ahead of the 40th anniversary of the union. Khaleel said Governor […]
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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday received the report of the Tripartite Committee on the Review of National Minimum Wage that recommended ₦30,000 and expressed his commitment to having new National Minimum Wage Act. President Buhari also said that having seen the argument of the government team on insisting on N24,000 and that of the organized […]
Read More There was relief yesterday as a midnight agreement between labour and the federal government on the dispute over minimum wage for workers averted a nationwide strike that was scheduled to commence today. The agreement, which would see the nation’s workers receive a minimum pay cheque of N30,000, was reached among labour, Organised Private Sector (OPS) […]
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Dana Air says it will reschedule or reroute its flights to cushion the effects of the proposed nationwide strike by the organised labour. “It is our commitment towards ensuring that our guests do not bear the impact of the imminent strike action by the Nigeria Labour Congress scheduled to commence November 6,” the Media and […]
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Nigeria’s organized labour yesterday suspended its planned industrial action earlier slated for today, (Tuesday) just as a new national minimum wage was pegged at ₦30,000 by the Tripartite Committee set up by the Federal Government. Correspondent learned that the labour unions had extracted a firm commitment from the government to pay the ₦30, 000 it […]
Read More After prolonged argument, it was gathered that the Tripartite Committee set up by the Federal Government agreed on ₦30,000 new minimum wage. At the end of the first meeting of the tripartite committee set up to arrive at an agreeable minimum wage template, Chairperson of the committee and former Head of the Civil Service of […]
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Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has commenced strike. Also the organised labour Sunday night shunned meeting organised by the Federal Government to resolve the impasse on the new minimum wage. Non of the labour leaders attended the meeting at the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha. One of […]
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The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, on Friday briefed President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on the threat by the organized labour to embark on industrial action from Nov. 6, over delay in the implementation of new national minimum wage. Ngige, who spoke to State House correspondents after the closed door […]
Read More ABUJA, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Nigerian trade unions may resume a nationwide strike if the government fails to publicly agree to a proposed increase in the minimum wage and to set about putting it into law, three union federations said on Sunday. Unions suspended a national strike on its fourth day last month, saying the […]
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There was widespread relief yesterday as organised labour suspended its warning strike and announced its readiness to resume negotiations with federal and state governments on Thursday over its demand for an upward review of the prevailing ₦18, 000 national minimum wage. The strike, which recorded partial success in many states of the federation had crippled […]
Read More The organised labour has suspended the ongoing strike with effect from today, Sunday. National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Ayuba Wabba announced this while briefing journalists at the Labour House Abuja. Wabba said that the organised labour has gotten firm commitment from the government that the Tripartite Committee of the Minimum Wage Committee […]
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