The organized Labour has disagreed with Federal Government’s proposed N62,000 as new minimum wage, pegs it at N250,000.
Following several hours of meetings on Friday, June 7, between the Labour Congress and the Tripartite Committee, they increased their offer for the new minimum wage to N62,000 from the earlier N60,000.
However, the organised labour is proposing N250,000 which is a shift from its earlier N494,000.
This brings to and end the deliberations on the new minimum wage by the tripartite committee set up by the the Federal Government after several months.
According to CHANNELS TELEVISION report, the recommendations will be forwarded to President Tinubu, who is expected to send an executive bill to the National Assembly for legislative action.
Recall that Nigeria Labour Congress embarked on an industrial strike on Monday, May 3, the action was however suspended on Tuesday after the Federal Government promised to increase the minimum wage to an amount bigger than N60,000 as they resumed negotiations.
The suspension of the strike gave room for the resumption of negotiations which continued until this night.
Meanwhile, the 36 state governors have said that the N60,000 minimum wage proposal by the Federal Government is not sustainable and cannot fly.
A statement by the Acting Director, Media Affairs and Public Relations of the Forum, Mrs Halima Ahmed, noted that if allowed to fly, many states will use all their monthly allocations from the federation account to pay workers’ salaries.
