No agreement yet on minimum wage – NLC
In his nationwide broadcast to mark Democracy Day, President Bola Tinubu claimed that an agreement had been reached on new national minimum salaries, which was rejected by organised labour.Tinubu stated that the Federal Government and organised labour had reached an agreement on the long-debated new minimum wage.
Tinubu disclosed in his nationwide broadcast to commemorate 2024 Democracy Day in Abuja on Wednesday that an executive bill will be forwarded to the nationwide Assembly shortly to formalize the new minimum wage accord.
In responding to labor union demands, the President emphasized that his administration preferred a democratic approach over a dictatorial one.
However, in a statement on Wednesday, the acting President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Prince Adewale Adeyanju, stated that no agreement was reached. The Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage concluded negotiations on Friday, June 7, 2024.
Adeyanju added that two amounts, N250,000 from Organized Labour and N62,000 from the government and Organized Private Sector, were arrived at and should have been presented to the President.
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The Labour leader declared that anything to the contrary was not only doctored, but would not be accepted by Labour.
The statement reads, "The NLC would have expected that the President's advisers would have notified him that we had not reached any agreement with the federal government and the employers on the basic amount for a National Minimum Wage or on any other
components.
"Our demand remains N250,000 (two hundred and fifty thousand naira), and we have not been given any convincing grounds to change this position, which we consider a significant concession by Nigerian workers during the tripartite bargaining process.
"We are consequently astonished by Mr. President's reply regarding a claimed agreement. We feel he was mislead into assuming there was an agreement between the NLC and the TUC. There was none, and it is critical that we inform the President, Nigerians, and other national stakeholders of this right away to avoid confusion in the ongoing debate over the national minimum wage."
"Our demand remains N250,000 (two hundred and fifty thousand naira), and we have not been given any convincing grounds to change this position, which we consider a significant concession by Nigerian workers during the tripartite bargaining process.
"We are consequently astonished by Mr. President's reply regarding a claimed agreement. We feel he was mislead into assuming there was an agreement between the NLC and the TUC. There was none, and it is critical that we inform the President, Nigerians, and other national stakeholders of this right away to avoid confusion in the ongoing debate over the national minimum wage."
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