N54,000 new minimum wage offer rejected by Labour

The N54,000 new minimum wage that the federal government had proposed was rejected by Organized Labor on Tuesday.

In contrast to its initial offer of N48,000, FG had proposed N54,000 to Labour during a meeting. In a phone call with Vanguard, one of the Organized Labour leaders present at the conference disclosed this information.

Remember that once the Federal Government suggested N48,000 as the minimum wage, Organized Labor, which is made up of the Trade Union Congress and the Nigeria Labour Congress, withdrew from the Tripartite Committee on Minimum Wage.

Organised Labour warned FG last week to forget about proposing N100,000 as the new minimum wage.

It also asked the government to be serious with negotiations on the issue of workers’ wages, insisting that it used the lowest minimum in arriving at N615,000 as the new minimum wage.