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Minimum Wage Committee Begins Deliberations by nwatiti(m): 4:26pm On Jul 03, 2016 |
The 15-man committee inaugurated by the
Federal Government on the implementation of
the new minimum wage for workers has started
sitting.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered
from some members of the committee at the
weekend that it had met once.
Mr Chris Onyedika, Acting General Secretary of
a faction of the NLC and a member of the 15-
man committee, also confirmed that it had
started deliberations on the agreement reached
between the Federal Government and factions
of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) in May,
this year.
The 15-man committee will review the Federal
Government’s liberalisation of the downstream
sector of the petroleum industry, leading to the
new fuel pump price of N145 per litre.
The committees will discuss and recommend a
new national minimum wage, the N500 billion
palliatives being proposed by the Federal
Government and the re-constitution of the
Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory
Agency Board, among other issues, before
presenting their recommendations to
government,’’ Onyedika said.
NAN recalls that the government in May
increased the price of Petrol from N97.00 to
N145 per litre, which led to some agitation and
a warning strike by Organised Labour.
The Joint Negotiation Council had also started
to agitate for an increase in national minimum
wage for workers, which was last reviewed five
years ago.
Meanwhile, at this year’s International Labour
Organisation (ILO) conference in Geneva ,
Switzerland, participants encouraged the ILO to
promote the ratification and implementation of
the Minimum Wage Fixing Convention, 1970.
The NLC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC),
the two central labour organizations in the
country have proposed N56, 000 as the new
national minimum wage to the Federal
Government, as against the current
N18, 000.
The current national minimum wage law which
prescribed N18, 000 was enacted in 2011. |
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