The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has insisted on the N250,000 minimum wage for workers in the country.
The TUC
president, Festus Osifo, on Tuesday, disclosed this at the inaugural Annual
Convention of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria
Women Commission in Abuja, themed "The Dynamic Woman: Navigating
Challenges in a Constantly Evolving World."
Osifo
also stated that TUC and the Nigeria Labour Congress were meeting with
officials of the Federal Government to reach an agreement on the minimum wage.
The
Federal Government and Organised Private Sector have agreed on N62,000 as the
new minimum wage, but labour is insisting on N250, 000.
According
to him, "Negotiations on the new minimum wage have not been abandoned,
rather labour and the government were fine-tuning the matter.
“The
minimum wage negotiations cannot be dead. The 2019 minimum wage (that has
expired) took about two years to see the light of day. We started the
negotiations in 2017.
“We
promised you when we started in January (this year) that we will ensure this
one is fast – tracked for us not to be in the conundrum that we were in 2019
which took two years,” the TUC president stated.
“So
where we are today, we submitted the divergent position in June, when we did
that you know clearly that Mr. President came out to say that he wanted to
consult across board which is the governors, Local Government chairmen,
organised private sector, and labour, so we are doing some level of reach-out
and conversations.
“So
that what will be submitted to the National Assembly will actually be a minimum
wage that will cater for the poorest of the poor, so for the fact that in the
media we are not shouting, we are doing some level of internal work so that
this bill will be submitted in earnest soon. We still insist on the N250,000
benchmark as ideal minimum wage,” Osifo stated.
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