Minimum Wage
Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said President Bola Tinubu will submit the proposed bill on minimum wage once it is ready
The federal Executive Council (FEC) has stepped down the memo on the new minimum wage for President Bola Tinubu to consult widely before a final submission.
The inability of the federal government state Houses of Assembly and the Labour Congress (NLC) to pursue legal recourse threatens the compliance of the new wage.
Organsied labour has disclosed its next line of action should President Bola Ahmed Tinubu send the N62,000 minimum wage to the National Assembly.
Organised labour, the federal government, states, and local governments may end up with a compromise deal of N70,000 as new national minimum wage.
Okanlawon Gaffar, a Nigerian lawyer, has joined conversations around what state governors should pay workers as minimum wage. The governors earlier opposed N60,000.
NLC has said it is expected of President Bola Tinubu to reach out to the tripartite committee to see whether they can build a synergy outside the negotiating table.
The list of states where workers are getting more than constitutional N30,000 minimum wage have been compiled and published. Workers in Edo, Lagos get up to N70k.
Senator Ahmed Wadada has said the federal government of Nigeria should pay N150,000 as a minimum wage. Wadada said lawmakers are ready to sacrifice.
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