•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 ...
•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 […]
•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...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said the commencement of negotiation of the new National Minimum Wage in 2024 would be based on the prevailing cost of living in the country. Mr Joe Ajaero, NLC President, said this at the ongoing 19th edition of the NLC 2023 Harmattan School, organised by the Congress today in […]
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