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August 15, 2019
The organised labour has pleaded forPresident Muhammadu Buhari’s intervention to resolve the disagreement over thethirty thousand naira new minimum wage. The Federal Government and labour againfailed to reach an agreement over payment of the new minimum wage at a meetingin Abuja on yesterday.
As the Federal Government isproposing a ten per cent salary increase for workers on grade level 07 to 14and five point five per cent for those on grade level fifteen to seventeen,labour is demanding twenty nine per cent for workers on grade level 07 to 14and twenty four per cent for those on grade level 15 to 17. However, bothparties will resume negotiations in Abuja next week.
A source said that labour wasinsistent on its demand while government negotiators refused to improve ontheir proposals. It added that a meeting that was scheduled for today had beencalled off.
The Chairman of the NationalSalaries, Income and Wages Commission, Richard Egbule said labour’s demandswould significantly increase the total wage bill hence the government would notaccept the proposed salary adjustments.8���G�,�pW�