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July 29, 2019
The General Secretary of the Nigeria LabourCongress, Peter Ozo-Eson, said the Federal Government and labourrepresentatives on the technical committee set up to negotiate consequentialincrease arising from the new minimum wage would resume negotiation this week.
After negotiation broke down between the governmentand labour on what workers at various grade levels would get as salaryincrease, the NLC, Trade Union Congress and the Joint National Public ServiceNegotiation Council wrote separate letters to the Secretary to the Governmentof the Federation, Boss Mustapha.
In the letters they complained of introduction ofnew terms of reference by the Federal Government team that were not in the documentpresented by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, when heinaugurated the negotiating committee on May 14th, 2019.
On Wednesday, the Boss Mustapha and representativesof Joint National Public Service Negotiation Council met in Abuja where issuesthat led to the breakdown of negotiation were discussed.