Minimum Wage: Organised Labour Directs State Councils To Commence Negotiation - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 24, 2019
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC has directed state councilsto commence immediate negotiation with the Governors on the implementation ofthe consequential adjustment of the thirty-thousand naira new national minimumwage.
NLC President Ayuba Wabba, made this known at the 2019 NLCNational Leadership retreat, held in Enugu, with the theme: “StrategicLeadership and New Challenges in the Future of Work.”
Wabba, while speaking at the event, noted that the main goalof the retreat is to get the leadership of Congress at all levels “to examine,discuss, brainstorm and proffer pragmatic ideas to the challenges of today andfears for tomorrow confronting Nigerian workers”.
He lamented that Nigerian workers are forced to beg fortheir salaries, which are now owed in arrears, while other countries have fullyaccommodated and automated the process of minimum wage adjustments and are nowfocused on living wages.