• Meeting adjourned to today over absence of NGF
• OPS may shift ground if FG pushes further
Organised labour has again rejected the N54,000 proposed by the Federal Government as a new minimum wage for Nigerian workers, saying it could not settle for a proposal that would result in income reduction for federal workers who are already receiving N77,000.
Meanwhile, the new figure aligns with that of the Organised Private Sector’s (OPS) N54,000 proposal presented at the last negotiation, where representatives of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) had walked out. They had maintained that the initial N48,000 proposed by the Federal Government and N54,000 by the OPS insulted the sensibilities of Nigerian workers and failed to meet their needs.
The N54,000 figure was proposed yesterday at the ongoing tripartite negotiation comprising the Federal Government, labour and the OPS, with NLC and TUC saying the amount still fell below their expectations and urging the government to get serious and give workers a fair wage.
