Members of the Tripartite Committee on Minimum Wage, comprising government representatives, organised labour, and the organised private sector, resumed talks, yesterday, on a new minimum wage for Nigerian workers.
• Address workers’ demands within seven-day window, Labour Party urges FG
President of Nigeria Labour Congress , Joe Ajaero, and his Trade Union Congress counterpart, Festus Osifo, attended on behalf of the organised labour. Until it was suspended on Tuesday morning, millions of Nigerians remained without electricity. Also, hospital workers were not available to attend to patients, and many flights were cancelled at the country’s busiest airports in Lagos and Abuja, leaving passengers stranded.
Interjecting, the Deputy Speaker asked the lawmaker to be mindful of Section 31 of the Trade Unions Act, which, he said, prescribed conditions trade unions should meet before urging members to go on strike, especially when the employee is engaged in the provision of essential services. The Minority Leader, Kingsley Chinda, also urged his colleagues to speedily amend the minimum wage bill, like they did the national anthem, saying if President Bola Tinubu refuses to assent to it, the National Assembly should override him.
In a related development, the Labour Party appealed to the Federal Government to address the request of Nigerian workers within the seven-day window for renegotiation of the new minimum wage. “A paltry minimum wage of N30,000 for Nigerian workers, or should we say the N60,000 being proposed is far too low to survive in this country. A bag of rice is about N80,000 now. Nigerians cannot even touch pepper and tomatoes.”
The bill forwarded by the President is titled ‘A Bill for an Act to Prescribe the Salaries, Allowances and Fringe Benefits of Judicial Office Holders in Nigeria and for Related Matters’. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, yesterday, said he had no cause to regret seeking full autonomy for the 774 local councils in the country.
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