The Organised Labour nonetheless insists that the N250,000 benchmark stays the perfect minimal wage for employees in Nigeria, the President, Commerce Union Congress, Festus Osifo, declared on Tuesday.
Osifo additionally said that TUC and the Nigeria Labour Congress have been assembly with officers of the Federal Authorities to achieve an settlement on the minimal wage.
He disclosed this on the Petroleum and Pure Gasoline Senior Workers Affiliation of Nigeria Ladies Fee maiden Annual Conference in Abuja, with the theme, ‘The Dynamic Lady: Navigating Challenges in a Consistently Evolving World.’
Discussions on a brand new nationwide minimal wage has paused following the choice of President Bola Tinubu to seek the advice of with stakeholders earlier than sending the invoice to the Nationwide Meeting.
The Federal Authorities and Organised Personal Sector have agreed on N62,000 as the brand new minimal wage, however labour is insisting on N250, 000.
Talking on the occasion, Osifo stated negotiations on the brand new minimal wage has not been deserted, moderately labour and the federal government have been fine-tuning the matter.
“The minimal wage negotiations can’t be useless. The 2019 minimal wage (that has expired) took about two years to see the sunshine of day. We began the negotiations in 2017.
“We promised you once we began in January (this yr) that we are going to guarantee this one is quick – tracked for us to not be within the conundrum that we have been in 2019 which took two years,” the TUC president said.
He insisted that the minimal wage was receiving consideration, including that the President needed additional consultations earlier than submitting it to the Nationwide Meeting.
“So the place we’re at present, we submitted the divergent place in June, once we did that clearly that Mr President got here out to say that he needed to seek the advice of throughout board which is the governors, Native Authorities chairmen, organised non-public sector and labour, so we’re doing a little stage of reach-out and conversations.
“In order that what will probably be submitted to the Nationwide Meeting will really be a minimal wage that can cater for the poorest of the poor, so for the truth that within the media we aren’t shouting, we’re doing a little stage of inner work in order that this invoice will probably be submitted in earnest quickly. We nonetheless insist on the N250,000 benchmark as preferrred minimal wage,” Osifo said.
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