Again, Labour rejects FG’s N54,000 proposed new minimum wage

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Organised Labour has rejected the N54,000 proposed by the Federal Government as new minimum wage. The Federal Government had, in a meetin g with Labour, proposed N54,000 as against its earlier N48,000 offer, one of the leaders of the Organised Labour who attended the meeting revealed this to newsmen yesterday. Recall that Organised Labour, comprising of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress, walked out on the Tripartite Committee on Minimum Wage following the FG’s pproposed N48,000 minimum wage. Last week Organised Labour told the Federal Government…

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Minimum Wage, TUC President says May 1st announcement not feasible

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The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) President, Festus Osifo,has said that the much-awaited new minimum wage may not be announced on May 1st. Osifo said this while speaking with newsmen on Friday in Abuja. The negotiation by the Tripartite Committee is still on-going. If you remember, the TUC earlier submitted N447, 000 as the new minimum wage but we have harmonised our figure with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). It is now N615, 000. Regarding the when for the new minimum wage, the committee is still working. So, certainly, May…

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2023: “Your only ticket to a new Nigeria is your PVC” – Wabba tells workers

The President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Ayuba Wabba, has stressed the need for Nigerian workers to have Permanent Voter Card (PVC), for the February 2023 general election. Wabba, in his New Year message to Nigerian workers and the masses, reiterated that the PVC is our ticket to the Nigeria of our dream. He urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and other stakeholders, including security agencies, to uphold the highest standards of professional ethics in order to ensure free and fair elections. It must be one man, one…

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NUT lashes Kaduna Govt., rejects sack of 2,357 teachers

Organised Labour threatens nationwide strike The Kaduna State Government may be heading for another showdown with organised Labour following the decision of the Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board to sack 2,357 teachers for failing a competency test. The leadership of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has threatened to embark on a nationwide strike if the State Government fails to reverse the decision to sack the teachers, including its National President, Audu Amba. The union made its position known yesterday during its National Executive Council meeting at the Teachers…

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Subsidy: NLC berates FGs fuel importation policy

Reiterates readiness to ground economic activities if.. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on Wednesday, criticised the Federal Government policy on fuel importation, reiterating its readiness to shut down economic activities in the country should the APC-led government insist on increasing the price of PMS without due consideration. NLC also called on the Federal Ministry of Health to ensure that the amount agreed on the consolidated health salary structure is captured in the 2022 budget to avoid another round of industrial action in the health sector next year. President of NLC,…

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Labour Strikes: Decentralise negotiation of wages, conditions of service – PGF DG Urges FG

Godwin Amunde The Director-General of Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) – the umbrella body of Nigerian governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Dr. Salihu Lukman, has urged the Federal Government to decentralise the negotiation of wages and conditions of service to reduce if not eliminate the frequent shutdown of the economy by labour unions. Lukman said this in a statement, titled: Labour issues and need for reorientation in Nigeria, in Abuja on Sunday in response to the ongoing industrial action by the Nigerian Association of…

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PMB’s Democracy Day broadcast: Labour blasts FG, says it is creating jobs for ghosts

Faults presidents claim of lifting 10.5m Nigerians out of poverty, creating jobs The Nigerian Labour group, Trade Union Congress, (TUC), has expressed doubt on the claim by President Muhammadu Buhari that his government has created 10. 5 million jobs, saying that the government must be creating the jobs for ghosts. The TUC was reacting to the President’s claim, made during his nationwide broadcast on Sunday, while commemorating June 12 Democracy Day. According to the TUC president, Comrade Quadri Olaleye, in the Food, Beverages and Tobacco industry alone, Nigeria has lost…

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‘Workers to earn more as FG seeks pay parity’, Says Finance Minister

Contrary to earlier reports, the Federal Government has said it is not thinking of cutting wages, but rather mulling salary harmonisation. This is against the backdrop of the fact that there are some government agencies paying much higher than others, for staff on the same grade level. Therefore, according to the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, the government is seeking more pay parity.  Mrs. Ahmed, who disclosed this at the National Policy Dialogue on Corruption and Cost of Governance in Nigeria, organised by the Independent…

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Strike: Labour gives Niger govt. fresh conditions

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Niger has made three points demand to enable it suspend the ongoing seven-day strike in the state. Mr Yakubu Garba, the state Chairman, NLC made this known in an interview in Minna. We held a meeting with the government team on Saturday night and agreed that the October salaries of Local Government workers be paid. Organised labour also demanded that the state government remit corporative deductions to workers and 80 civil servants dismissed from service be re-instated, he said.…

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FG extends suspension of new electricity tariff by 1 week

The Federal Government has extended the suspension of the new electricity tariff by one week. Professor James Momoh, Chairman, Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said this when the ad hoc Technical Committee on Electricity Tariff submitted its interim report at a reconvene bilateral meeting between Federal Government and Organised Labour on Monday in Abuja. The new tariff was earlier suspended for two weeks and ended at midnight on October 11, when the organised labour suspended the planned industrial action over agitation on the hike in electricity tariff on Sept. 28.,…

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