The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says the new minimum wage may be negotiated to one hundred to two hundred thousand owing to the rising cost of living.
While the union and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) had planned to go on strike on Tuesday owing to the impact of the fuel subsidy removal, they shelved it following a meeting with government authorities in Abuja late Monday.
But according to the President of the NLC Joe Ajaero, the move was to give the government time to fulfil its part of the agreement reached with organised labour, adding that the thirty-five wage award – part of the government’s offers – is not a new minimum wage.
The labour president while speaking with both labour unions and the Government in April, or before that time negotiated the new wage to be a one hundred to two hundred thousand.
“So, it is not a minimum wage but it is a wage added to the minimum wage. So, should we in March, April, or before that time negotiate the new wage to be N100,000 or N200,000, it would be inscribed as minimum wage law which should be the law in existence,” he said on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
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