•Tinubu (middle) and Organised Labour leaders The meeting between President Bola Tinubu and the leadership of Organised Labour at the Presidential Villa, Abuja today produced no breakthrough as parties have resolved to maintain the status quo. The Organised Labour is asking for a minimum of N250,000 as the minimum wage whereas the federal gove...
•Tinubu (2nd left) and Organised Labour leaders Leaders of the Organised Labour are in a closed-door session with President Bola Tinubu over a new minimum wage for workers in the country. President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero; and his counterpart at the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Festus Osifo, were spotted arriving at [&h...
•Nigerian workers The Nigeria Labour Congress has said it would press for N250,000 minimum wage during a planned meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the State House, Abuja, today. The Head of Public Affairs of the NLC, Benson Upah said Labour would insist on its N250,000 proposal during the session with the President, reports The […]...
•Tinubu (2nd left) and Organised Labour leaders President Bola Tinubu will meet with the Organised Labour in Abuja tomorrow to further discussions on a new minimum wage for workers in Nigeria. A top labour source told our correspondent that the President invited the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC)...
•Tinubu (center ) and Organised Labour leaders President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Festus Osifo, has written off criticisms that the struggle for a new national minimum wage may have waned. While reacting to the insinuations, Osifo said the federal government is still having conversations with all relevant stakeholders cutting acr...
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has announced a 3.75% increase in Australia’s minimum and award wages. This adjustment will raise the national minimum wage to $24.10 per hour, equating to $915.91 per week for a full-time, 38-hour working week. This increase translates to an additional $33 per week for those earning the minimum wage, impacting [...
•Nigerian workers The acting Minister of Labour and Employment, Hon. Nkiruika Onyejeocha today disclosed that the report of the Tripartite Committee on the new minimum wage submitted to President Bola Tinubu reflects a “balanced and realistic approach to addressing the myriad challenges faced by our workforce.” According to her, “These submiss...
•Governor Biodun Oyebanji The Ekiti State governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji, yesterday, said governors, under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, are not against approval of a living wage for Nigerian workers. Oyebanji said the NGF was only clamouring for fiscal federalism that would culminate in the ability and capability of individual stat...
•Nigerian workers’ union The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights, CDWR, has called on the Ogranised Labour to immediately mobilise and declare a nationwide strike over the minimum wage and the recent hike in electricity tariff. According to CDWR, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, as the next ...
•Nigerian workers The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has faulted the comments credited to governors that states should determine their minimum wage in their domains. “This notion is not only dictatorial but also undermines the very essence as well as the model adopted for creating a national minimum wage in Nigeria,” the NLC said in a […...
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