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August 15, 2019
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, hasdispelled ongoing reports that negotiations between the organised labour andthe Technical Committee on Consequential Adjustment of the new minimum wage hadstopped.
The NLC National President, Ayuba Wabba, toldNewsmen in Abuja on Thursday that the negotiations were still ongoing.
He said even although the NLC and the TradeUnion Congress,TUC were not directly involved in the negotiations, they wouldstep in if any disagreement occurred.
It would be recalled that the new minimumwage bill was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari in April.
However, deliberations were ongoing as theissue of relativity/consequential adjustment of salaries still persisted.
The Federal Government had on May 14inaugurated the relativity/Consequential Adjustment Committee which in turn setup a Technical Sub-Committee to work out the template for the adjustment ofsalaries of Public Service Employees.
However, with negotiations resuming onAugust 14, Wabba noted that Nigerian workers had waited so long for the newminimum wage.