Minimum Wage
28 Feb
Life has become nasty, brutish, and short for Nigerian workers in 2024. Life is now full of hunger, pains, insecurity and poverty. Unemployment, underemployment and inflation are high.
15 Feb
As the country prepares to negotiate a new national minimum wage, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has sought the cooperation of the Nigeria Employers' Consultative Association (NECA) to work together to provide a living wage for Nigerian workers.
9 Feb
Former Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday, stressed the need for states to decide their own minimum wage, saying it was important for wages to move from the exclusive to concurrent list.
31 Jan
Nigerian workers, yesterday, expressed optimism as the Federal Government finally inaugurated a 37-man tripartite committee to plan a new national minimum wage for the country.
30 Jan
Vice President Kashim Shettima on Tuesday inaugurated the Bukar Goni Aji-led 37-man Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage at the State House, Abuja. Specifically, the committee is tasked with the responsibility of proposing a new national minimum wage for Nigerian workers. It has representatives of the federal and state governments, the private sector, and the…
29 Jan
President Bola Tinubu will, tomorrow, inaugurate a negotiation committee for a new national minimum wage. In a letter, with reference number ‘58957/S.1/T6/X’ sent to persons invited to the inauguration and sighted by The Guardian..
25 Jan
With three months left until the expiration of the current minimum wage, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) of Nigeria has said that it was worrisome that the federal government was yet to inaugurate a new national minimum wage committee.
24 Jan
The Federal Government is committed to prompt payment of the N35,000 wage arrears to government workers.
21 Jan
As Nigeria prepares for negotiations for a new national minimum wage, Organised Labour and other critical stakeholders have tasked the Federal Government to ensure a hitch-free negotiation process that would result in a timely agreement and implementation of the new wage.
18 Jan
The federal government has assured that the challenges to the implementation of a new national minimum wage would be addressed, saying the committee for wage negotiation would commence soon.
4 Dec
The Governor Agbu Kefas administration in Taraba State has brought relief to Tarabans with the implementation of the N30,000 minimum wage.
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