The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has expressed the readiness of his administration to pay the N30,000 minimum wage, as provision has been made for the increment in the state’s 2020 Appropriation Bill. The governor disclosed this when he received the Executives of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management Nigeria (CIPM) led by its […]
The Kwara Joint Labour Congress (JLC), has sought the support and cooperation of the Kwara House of Assembly on the full implementation of N30,000 minimum wage for workers by the state government. Mr Kola Olumoh, the Chairman, Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Kwara, made this plea on Tuesday when the state Joint Labour Council paid […]
…No justifiable reason for states not to pay new minimum wage -Ngige …Economists, others urge Govs to comply with new Minimum Wage Act Barring last minute change of mind, the organised labour may embark on industrial action across states any moment from now over the latest statement by the Nigeria Governor’s Forum (NGF) that the […]
The organised labour has appealed to state Houses of Assembly to identify with workers by compelling governors to pay the new minimum wage. General-Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr. Emmanuel Ugboaja, made the appeal while fielding questions from journalists on Sunday in Lagos. According to Ugboaja, any governor who refuses to pay the […]
Lagos – The organised labour has appealed to state Houses of Assembly to identify with workers by compelling governors to pay the new minimum wage. Mr Emmanuel Ugboaja, General-Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), made the appeal while fielding questions from journalists on Sunday in Lagos. According to Ugboaja, any governor who refuses to […]
Abuja – The Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, has approved the payment of arrears of the new minimum wage as agreed upon by the Organised Labour and the Federal Government. Immunisation to consume N32bn of N46bn capital allocation-CSOs The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, made this known […]
Lagos – Organised Labour has commended stakeholders who negotiated on the consequential adjustment arising from the N30,000 monthly new National Minimum Wage signed into Law by President Muhammadu Buhari on April 18, 2019. The Ag. Chairman, Trade Union Side (TUS), Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC), Mr Simon Anchaver and Secretary, Mr Bashir Alade, […]
It appears that Alex Gourevitch, Professor at Brown University, had the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), in mind, when he stated that; every liberal democracy recognizes that workers have the right to strike; that such right is protected in law and sometimes in the constitution itself. Yet, strikes according to […]
While the Nigerian government struggle to fulfil its promise of jacking workers minimum wage to N30,000, it is instructive to note that the American government spend an equivalent of N31,000 on a prisoner daily. Minister of Interior Rauf Aregbesola made this starking revelation on Friday during an interface with the Senate and House of Representatives […]
The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Legislative Compliance, Mr Dennis Idahosa, has commended the Federal Government and organised labour over the peaceful resolution on the full implementation of the new national minimum wage. Idahos, who gave the commendation in a statement on Friday in Benin on Friday said that strike would have further impacted […]
Abuja – Following three days of negotiations by and the on the consequential adjustments of the implementation of the new minimum wage of N30000, both parties have finally reached an agreement. This came as the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige has said the new minimum wage was a national law and it […]
By Ukpono Ukpong, Abuja Finally, mother luck has smiled on Nigerian workers as the Federal Government and the organised labour has reached an agreement on the consequential adjustments workers salary following the implementation of the new minimum wage of N30,000. The negotiations which began on Monday, October 14 and adjourned for two consecutive days ended today […]
Asaba – The Nigeria Congress (NLC) in Delta on Thursday announced the suspension of the strike embarked on the failure of the federal government to fully implement the new N30000 minimum wage. Riders Permit not National Drivers Licence — FRSC warns The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the NLC in the state had […]
Abuja – The President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Dr Ayuba Wabba, has described as mere speculation, reports of agreement to a 20 per cent and 13.5 per cent consequential adjustments for workers on Grade Levels 7-14 and 15-17 respective. At the minimum wage meeting, Wabba said although organised labour and the government’s representatives have made […]
Abuja – Hours into the midnight deadline for industrial action over the minimum wage agreement between labour and the Federal Government, both sides have not reached a concensus. Labour had resorted to the strike option from Oct. 17 if the government failed to reach a concensus with it on Oct. 16 over the consequential adjustments […]
The United Labour Congress (ULC) president, Mr Joe Ajaero, says the group will not be part of an exercise designed to hoodwink Nigerian workers and masses into believing that their interests are being championed. Ajaero made this in an interview with newsmen during the ongoing negotiations on minimum wage with the Federal Government representatives and […]
Enugu – The Trade Union Congress (TUC), says Nigerian workers were no longer comfortable with the delay in the implementation of the new minimum wage by the Federal Government. Mr Chukwuma Igbokwe, the chairman of Enugu state chapter of TUC disclosed this while speaking with newsmen on Wednesday in Enugu. Igbokwe said that workers are […]
Anyone who followed the national new minimum wage negotiations between the organised Labour and the Federal Government at the peak in November 2018 would have known, as they say in Nigerian street lingo, that it would “end in tears”. While receiving the report of the Tripartite Committee on New Minimum Wage from the Chairman, Amal […]
Every well-meaning Nigerian must condemn the threat by the Federal Government to retrench workers if the Organised Labour, represented by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), insists on the payment of the N30,000 minimum wage with its consequential adjustments. Recall that the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, on […]
Enugu – The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has advised Nigerian workers to shun remarks by Timi Frank, the former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of APC that labour leaders have compromised. The Chairman, Enugu State chapter of the Union, Mr. Chukwuma Igbokwe, told newsmen in Enugu on Friday that if government listened to Frank, it might spell […]