JUST IN: Tinubu Sent Fresh Message on Recommendation of New Minimum Wage, Details Surface

• Amid the stalemate in negotiation concerning the new national minimum wage, a labour leader, Akeem Ambali, has sent a message to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu
• Ambali asked the tripartite committee on the national minimum wage and President Tinubu to be honest in the negotiation process
• The organised labour had proposed N250,000 as the new national minimum wage, which the government said was unrealistic

TheTalk.NG journalist Ridwan Adeola Yusuf has over 9 years of experience covering governance and public journalism.

FCT, Abuja – Akeem Ambali, the national treasurer of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has urged President Bola Tinubu to go ahead and recommend the new minimum wage to the national assembly after consultation with organised labour on the agreement.

Speaking in an interview with The Punch published on Saturday, June 29, the NLC official advised President Tinubu to “concentrate his energy on engaging labour with realistic data and statistics”.

Labour eyes presidential approval of new national minimum wage.
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Minimum wage: Labour ready for amicable resolution

Ambali insisted on a living wage, asking all stakeholders to be “sincere” about the new minimum wage negotiation.

The labour leader urged President Tinubu to genuinely intervene in the minimum wage deadlock.

His words:

“It is a tripartite committee. Two are on the same page, because they are employers, and the two cumulatively amount to one, because they are both employees. It is only the employees that are agitating because they are the ones that feel the pinch; they know where it hurts.

“Mr President should concentrate his energy on engaging Labour with realistic data and statistics, which can be obtained from the Federal Bureau of Statistics. How much does it take to feed a family in a month? We should be guided by that. Once we are able to do that and we are sincere about it, the president can then engage labour, and we will resolve this amicably.”

In the same vein, Tommy Etim, the deputy president of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), stated that President Tinubu should caution Nigerian governors for suggesting that they should be allowed to determine the wages of their workers.

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New minimum wage: NLC speaks on expectations

Earlier, TheTalk.NG reported that the organised labour said it expects President Tinubu to reach out to members of the tripartite committee on the new national minimum wage to reconcile the figures.

Labour noted it was expecting to see a copy of the draft bill that would be sent to the national assembly.

Source: TheTalk.NG

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