NEGOTIATIONS ON NEW NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE SUFFERS SETBACK

Negotiations by the Tripartite Committee on a new National Minimum Wage have run into a stalemate following the Federal Government’s stance that it cannot afford more than twenty five thousand naira per month.

Labour and Organised Private Sector had agreed on a thirty thousand naira minimum wage per month.

President of Nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Ayuba Wabba had earlier told newsmen in Abuja that the Tripartite Committee had completed its assignment for onward submission to President Muhammadu Buhari.

It will be recalled that it was the Federal Government’s failure to present its figure at previous meetings and subsequent adjournment without a resumption date that had resulted in a nationwide warning strike by Labour on the twenty seventh of September and suspended on Sunday, the thirtieth.

FRANCIS UMEH