The organised labour has rejected the Federal Government\u2019s fresh offer of N60,00 as minimum wage.
\nThe Tide reliably learnt yesterday that the Federal Government has added a sum of N3,000 to its initially proposed N57,000 minimum wage, making it the sum of N60,000 proposed during a meeting of the tripartite committee on minimum wage in Abuja, yesterday.
\nOrganised labour, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) also went down by N3,000 from its last proposal of N497,000 during the last minimum wage meeting.
\nAccording to a source who gave the breakdown at yesterday\u2019s meeting, the amount proposed by the government did not go down well with labour leaders.
\nThe source who is a labour union leader said that the organised labour would only go lower if the government went higher on its demands.
\n\u201cThis is simply a case of if they go higher, we will go lower. They need to propose something reasonable for us to propose something lower too. There is no two-way about it.
\n\u201cAlso, we have a way of meeting as members of the Labour before each committee meeting. This will help us to take a uniform stand by the time we get to the meeting front.
\n\u201cSo as long as the government is ready to present something reasonable, we will meet them in the middle,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The organised labour has rejected the Federal Government\u2019s fresh offer of N60,00 as minimum wage. The Tide reliably learnt yesterday that the Federal Government has added a sum of N3,000 to its initially proposed N57,000 minimum wage, making it the sum of N60,000 proposed during a meeting of the tripartite committee on minimum wage in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[688],"class_list":["post-333206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-front-pix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333209,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333206\/revisions\/333209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}