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August 23, 2019
The Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council and the representatives of the Federal Government are currently meeting to put an end to delays in the implementation of the new national minimum wage.
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Themeeting, holding at the Office of the Secretary to the Government of theFederation, is expected to bring to an end continued disagreements in thepercentage of consequential adjustments.
Thenew minimum wage bill was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari inApril.
However,deliberations between government and labour had been stalled over the issue ofrelativity/consequential adjustment of salaries.
TheFederal Government had, on May 14, inaugurated the relativity/consequentialadjustment committee, which, in turn, set up a technical sub-committee to workout the template for the adjustment of salaries of public service employees.
Ata meeting between the government and labour in July, the former had proposed a10 percent increment for workers on Grade Level 7 to 14 and 5.5 percent forthose on Grade Level 15 to 17.