•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 […]...
Workers in the construction industry are set to begin a three-day warning strike today. They premised their action on the alleged failure of their employers, the Federation of Construction Industry (FOCI), to negotiate the payment of N35,000 minimum wage, reports The Nation. The workers, under the aegis of the National Union of Civil Engineeri...
•Tinubu and Ajaero The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, says most governors of the 37-Member Tripartite Committee On Minimum Wage are guilty of not complying with the proposed base pay structure. Vice President Kashim Shettima had inaugurated the committee in Abuja earlier yesterday, saying the decision was aimed at ...
•Tinubu The federal government is set to inaugurate a 37-man Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage with a mandate to recommend a new National Minimum Wage for the Country. The planned inauguration of the committee is sequel to the approval of President Bola Tinubu. This was according to a statement yesterday by Segun Imohiosen for [&he...
•Ajaero, Tinubu and Osifo As Nigeria prepares for negotiations for a new national minimum wage, Organised Labour and other critical stakeholders have tasked the federal government to ensure a hitch-free negotiation process that would result in a timely agreement and implementation of the new wage. They noted that considering the socio-economic...
•OAUSTECH Trade unions at Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology (OAUSTECH), Okitipupa, Ondo State, have notified the state governor, Lucky Ayedatiwa, of an imminent strike over unpaid minimum wages, wage awards and delay in the institution’s subvention. Mr Temidayo Temola, Chairman of Joint Action Congress (JAC) of the unions, di...
•TUC President Festus Osifo The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has claimed that the federal government stopped paying N35, 000 minimum wage after first month despite having the revenue to pay. The President of the Trade Union Congress, Festus Osifo, made this claim in an interview with Arise Television yesterday. According to the TUC, the governme...
Against the backdrop of the promise made by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in his New Year address that his administration will implement “national living wage” this year, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has raised a team to negotiate with government. The subsisting minimum wage, negotiated in 2018, expires in April 2024. Each agreed minimum wa...
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has lamented the non-payment of arrears of the national minimum wage to its members. It also urged the federal government to pay the October and November backlog of the N35,000 wage award to workers in its payroll, reports The Nation. The union said fourteen universities have failed...
•Adams Oshiomhole Senator Adams Oshiomhole representing Edo North Senatorial District has urged the public and private sectors to pay staffers the new minimum wage of N35,000 before Christmas. The former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress cautioned that there would be no Christmas festivities if workers were not paid the new mi...
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