Minimum wage: Why we may not accept N100,000 — Organised Labour
*Tells FG to break down whatever amount it wants to pay The Nigeria Organised Labour has told the Federal Government that it will not accept N100,000 as new minimum wage. It also asked government to be serious with negotiations on the issue of workers wages, insisting that it used the lowest minimum in arriving at the N615,000 as new minimum wage. Recall that Organised Labour, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, pulled out of the negotiation meeting last Wednesday when government offered N48,000 as new minimum wage. However, chairman of the Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage, Alhaji Bukar Goni, in a letter to Organized Labour calling a meeting to hold tomorrow, indicated interest that government would shift ground and asked organised labour to also shift ground. It was gathered that the NLC Head of Information and Public Affairs, Benson Upah, said organised labour will honour the invitation tomorrow ...