Minimum wage: FG, labour in make-or-break meeting today

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File copy: L-R: President Muhammadu Buhari; Minister of Labour, Dr Chris Ngige and President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Mr Ayuba Wabba during the president's meeting with labour leaders in AbujaT

File copy: L-R: President Muhammadu Buhari; Minister of Labour, Dr Chris Ngige and President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Mr Ayuba Wabba during the president's meeting with labour leaders in AbujaThe Federal Government and oragnised labour will today meet to discuss consequential increase in the salaries of workers as a result of the new minimum wage of N30,000.

Labour will be represented at the meeting by the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council, headed by its acting chairman, Achaver Simon, and secretary of the union, Alade Lawal. On its part, the Federal Government had been making moves to stop the strike with two impromptu meetings with leaders of the labour unions.The Monday meeting was preparatory to today’s meeting before labour will take a decision on whether to proceed on indefinite strike or not.

He said, “If we don’t soften the ground, bullets will fly and at the end of the day, we will come back to the negotiating table. That is why we are doing this as a pro-active measure. Part of my work is to ensure that there is a quiet industrial milieu. “We believe that the Federal Government will do the needful because ours is a straightforward proposal. We have made our proposal to the Federal Government before now and government is to respond. We believe that by tomorrow, we will get the feedback and know the next thing to do.”

 

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