Manufacturers and Organised Labour have kicked against the Federal Government’s 240 per cent hike in the tariff payable by electricity users enjoying a 20-hour power supply. They insisted on the electricity subsidy, warning that its removal would send manufacturers out of business and worsen inflation, reports The PUNCH. The subsidy on electri...
•NLC President Joe Ajaero There are strong indications that Organised Labour will push for N500,000 as the minimum wage as the zonal public hearing on the new wage structure begins on Thursday (today) in Lagos, Kano, Enugu, Akwa Ibom, Adamawa, and Abuja. The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, in an interview on […]
The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, (SAN) has urged the Nigeria Labour Congress to shelve their proposed nationwide protest. On February 16, the NLC announced a nationwide protest scheduled for February 27 and 28, in response to the economic challenges facing the country, reports Sunday PUNCH. This decision followed t...
•Tinubu and labour leaders Some federal civil servants today in separate interviews with our correspondent confirmed that the federal government has started the payments of the November 2023 wage award, ostensibly following the strike notice issued by the Organised Labour. The payment of wage awards to Nigerian workers was one of the deals agr...
•Organised Labour The organised Labour yesterday began mobilising its members for a nationwide protest slated for February 27 and 28 over the cost of living crisis in the country. Sources in the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress told our correspondents that the National Executive Council (NEC) met via Zoom on Friday, February 16, to [&...
•NLC President Ajaero The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) will hold a two-day nationwide protest over the hardship being experienced by Nigerians as well as the deteriorating security situation in the country. NLC President, Joe Ajaero, disclosed this during a press briefing in Abuja today after an emergency meeting of the National Executive Co...
The federal government has assured the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) that it would resume the payment of wage award to workers this week. A statement by Mr Olajide Oshundun, the spokesperson to the Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, yesterday, said the Minister gave the assurance ...
•NLC President, Tinubu & TUC President The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, has stated that if the ongoing inflation continues unabated, organised labour might push for a new minimum wage of up to N1 Million for Nigerian workers. Ajaero said the demand from organised labour would be influenced by the cost of […]...
•Construction Like every other sector, the building and construction industry may be witnessing one of its worst moments, as exchange rate, building materials, and labour prices have triggered an increase in construction costs by 200 per cent in the last two years. Nigeria’s inflation rate as of December 2023 climbed to 28.9 per cent, reports ...
•Nigerian workers Ahead of negotiation on the new national minimum wage, the Organised Labour has proposed a Living Wage of $300 for Nigerian workers. It argued that the current minimum wage of N30,000 has since been eroded by the high exchange rate coupled with the abrupt removal of fuel subsidy which has translated into the […]