Minimum Wage: Dead End As Labour Walks Out From N48,000 Offer

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A dead end was reached between the Organized Labour, Federal Government and the Organized Private Sector over the payment of a new minimum wage.

NLC and TUC walked out of the negotiations after the OPS proposed 54 thousand naira and 48 thousand naira were proposed by the Federal government.

The umbrella of the Nigerian workers said it is a reduction for federal workers who are already receiving N30,000 which is not only insulting but very deeming to the needs of workers.

The NLC and TUC showed their dissatisfaction over the decision taken by the government after several meetings of the Tripartite National Minimum Wage Committee, which goes out to portray how the government sees workers in the country.

Lamenting the unseriousness, at the Labour House NLC president, Joe Ajaero and Deputy President of TUC, Dr Tommy Okon, added that there was no data to even support the government’s offer.