Lagos — Following Organised Labour 's insistence on downing tools and declaring a nationwide strike if discussions on the new Nationalare not concluded by May 31, 2024, the Federal Government has summoned a meeting of the 37-member Tripartite Committee on the New National Minimum Wage, NNMW, for today in a major effort to beat the deadline.
There will also be a presentation by the NSIWC on the report of the income survey of the informal sector of the Nigerian economy 2023 and a report of the desk review of the remuneration survey of SMEs, conducted by SMEDAN/NBS 2013, 2017 and 2021. "We expect that full negotiation will commence in tomorrow's meeting because workers are really going through serious difficulties and hardship because of the anti-people policies of the government.
"As you are aware, at the time we proposed, the increase in electricity tariff was not done. The increase has added more burden to the workers. Stories across the country show that workers are in dire need of help. They are suffering, they are hungry, and they are in pain because of the government's policies.
On the government's offer, he said:"We understand that the government met but they are still keeping it to themselves, so it's that tomorrow that everything will be unveiled."We have given them something like an ultimatum that the thing must be completed this month . Even as it is now, I express some reservations unless we are meeting every day. But again, they can come up with something that might not cause much argument.
"I think if they don't want it to drag, it can be concluded before the end of May. Whatever we agree has to pass through the National Assembly for legislative action. The National Assembly will not be a problem, it is something they can handle very fast because someone is already drafting the bill."On May Day, the NLC and TUC had said:"The battle for a new national minimum wage rages on.
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