Tag: New minimum wage

  • Minimum wage: FG, workers’ face-off worsens as labour rejects sack option

    Minimum wage: FG, workers’ face-off worsens as labour rejects sack option

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    Organised labour on Friday dismissed as cheap blackmail a statement by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, that the Federal Government might lay off some workers in the public service should labour insist on having its way on the implementation of the N30,000 minimum wage. The Secretary, Joint National Public Service Negotiating…

  • Why Implementation of New Minimum Wage Is Delayed

    Why Implementation of New Minimum Wage Is Delayed

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    A disagreement between the Federal Government and Organised Labour in the Public Service on the template to work out consequential adjustment in wages may delay the implementation of the new National Minimum Wage. President of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), Comrade Bobboi Kaigama told The Nation on the sideline of the International Labour…