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Organised Labour has asked workers in the states where governors were yet to implement the new minimum wage to immediately begin an indefinite strike. In a joint address to Nigerian …
May Day: Fresh strike looms over minimum wage Read More
Nigeria’s organised labour has insisted that the House of Representatives should forget about the bill seeking to remove the National Minimum Wage from the exclusive legislative list, to the concurrent …
Minimum wage bill: We’re ready for nationwide protests, Labour tells Reps Read MoreAfter much agitation and threats to shut down the economy by the organised labour, President Muhammadu Buhari finally transmitted a new national minimum wage Bill to the National Assembly. JOSHUA …
N30,000 minimum wage: Reps in unity of purpose? Read MoreThe House of Representatives last week amended the Minimum Wage Bill and passed a uniform minimum wage of N30, 000 rather than the N27, 000 recommended by the Council …
Minimum wage versus micro wage earners Read MoreNigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has insisted that the National Assembly must do the needful by approving the N30, 000 national minimum wage, which is the product of the tripartite …
Labour to storm NASS Monday over minimum wage Read MoreThe new national minimum wage has received a boost, as it scaled second reading on the floor of the House of Representatives on Thursday. The Bill which was introduced for …
Breaking: Reps pass Minimum wage bill for second reading Read MoreDespite having 2019 budget still begging for attention after it was submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Senate has suspended its rules by evoking order 79 to give the new …
Breaking: Senate ‘dumps’ 2019 budget, face Minimum wage Read MoreThe Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has said that the N27, 000 minimum wage approved for Nigerian workers by the National Council of States is not acceptable to Nigerian teachers. …
Teachers reject N27, 000 minimum wage Read MoreRising from its one-day meeting on Tuesday, the National Council of State, pegged the national minimum wage at N27, 000 for states and the private sector, and N30, 000 for …
NLC rejects N27, 000 minimum wage, threatens shutdown Read MoreGovernorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Gombe, Senator Usman Bayero Nafada, during a debate organized by British Broadcasting Corporatio (BBC) Hausa Service stole the show when he …
Nafada steals show at BBC governorship debate, agrees to pay N30,000 minimum wage Read MoreThe National Economic Council (NEC) has resolved to refer the new N30,000 minimum wage as demanded by the organised labour to the National Council of State, which is scheduled to …
Minimum wage: National Council of State set to meet next week Read MoreA crucial meeting on the new minimum wage between Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and state Governors. Details loading…
Happening Now: Osinbajo meets Govs over minimum wage Read MoreThe Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) meeting ahead of Thursday’s National Economic Council (NEC) meeting over the controversial N30,000 new minimum wage failed to hold on Wednesday as a result of …
Minimum wage: Govs shun meeting Read MoreThe Minister of Information and Culture, Mr. Lai Mohammed, has said that the extraordinary meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) extensively discussed the national minimum wage and would comment …
Minimum wage still work in progress – Lai Mohammed Read MorePresident Muhamamdu Buhari on Wednesday inaugurated a Technical Advisory Committee on the implementation of a new minimum wage headed by and economist and financial expert, Mr. Bismarck Rewane. The President …
Minimum wage: Rewane, Fowler make 24-member Technical Advisory Committee Read MoreThe federal government yesterday agreed to transmit an executive bill of the recommended N30.000 National Minimum wage to the National Assembly by January 23rd, 2019 for enactment into law. …
Minimum wage: FG to transmit executive bill to NASS January 23 Read MoreThe Nigerian workers under the umbrella of Nigeria Labour Congress has threatened to vote out any state governor or party who failed to implement the newly proposed N30,000 minimum wage …
No new minimum wage, no vote, NLC tells governors Read MoreGenerally, there was ceaseless moments of angst and obvious sadness glaring on the faces of mostly government workers popularly known as Civil Servants following Nationwide protest declared by the Organised …
Minimum wage: Workers moody as Labour stage Nationwide protest Read MoreThe Organised Labour will later on Monday resume talks with the federal government in a bid to finding lasting solution to lingering minimum wage issues. This development comes three days …
Minimum wage: Uncertainty as Labour resumes talks with FG, strike looms Tuesday Read MoreThe ongoing disagreement among stakeholders on the proposed N30.000 New Minimum Wage is creating ripples, just as labour warms up for indefinite strike action next week. MOSES JOHN takes a …
New Minimum Wage: As labour gears up for indefinite strike Read MoreThe Nigeria Governors Forum, yesterday, reiterated its position on the controversial N30, 000 minimum wage proposal, insisting that it is “neither realistic nor sustainable.” Rather, the NGF said, states should …
Ahead Jan 8 strike: Govs insist N30, 000 minimum wage not sustainable Read MoreThe Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has concluded plans to embark on a nationwide mobilisation of Nigerian workers to protest federal government’s delay in transmitting, enacting and implementing a new national …
Minimum wage impasse: NLC set for Nationwide protest in January, demands bailout, Paris club probe Read MoreThe National Chairman of governing All Progressive Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has said that Nigeria has the capability to pay the N30.000 new minimum wage as recommended by …
Nigeria can pay N30.000 new minimum wage – Oshiomhole Read MoreAs President Muhammadu Buhari presents 2019 budget proposal of N8.7 trillion to the joint session of the National Assembly tomorrow, one of the items to be sought for in the …
N8.7trillion 2019 budget without N30,000 minimum wage Read MoreThe federal government is working towards an early implementation of a new minimum wage, Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation has said. Mustapha made this known yesterday …
FG working on early implementation of new minimum wage — SGF Read More