June 13, (THEWILL) – Organised Labour, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), has denied claims that it reached an agreement with the federal government on minimum wage.
President Bola Tinubu had, in his Democracy Day speech, said that an executive Bill with an agreed minimum wage would soon be taken to the National Assembly for formalisation
However, Prince Adewale Adeyanju, the acting vice president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), in a statement on Wednesday, said that at the time negotiations finished on Friday, June 7, the Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage had not reached an agreement.
The statement read: “The NLC would have expected that the advisers of the President would have told him that we neither reached any agreement with the federal government and the employers on the base figure for a National Minimum Wage nor on its other components.
“Our demand still remains N250,000, (two hundred and fifty thousand Naira) only and we have not been given any compelling reasons to change this position which we consider a great concession by Nigerian workers during the tripartite negotiation process.
“We are, therefore, surprised at the submission of Mr President over a supposed agreement. We believe that he may have been misled into believing that there was an agreement with the NLC and TUC.”
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