New Minimum Wage: Meeting Deadlocked As Labour Rejects FG’s Fresh ₦60,000 Offer

The latest rounds of negotiation between the Federal Government and organized labour comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) has ended in a deadlock as the organised labour has again rejected a fresh minimum wage proposal by the Federal Government.

This time the offer of the Federal Government to pay ₦60,000 as new minimum wage was rejected while organised labour also shifted grounds from its ₦497,000 stance last week to ₦494,000.

A prominent member of the Tripartite Committee for the negotiation of a new minimum wage for Nigerian workers told Channels Television labour correspondent that the Federal Government and the Organised Private Sector side of the talks proposed a ₦60,000 monthly minimum wage as against the ₦57,000 they proposed last week when the committee last met.

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The government had initially proposed ₦48,000 and ₦54,000 last week, which were also rejected by the Organised Labour.

The Organised Labour had also presented ₦615,000 as the new minimum wage but saw reasons to drop their demand to ₦497,000 last week and then to ₦494,000 on Tuesday (today).

Today’s meeting was, however, deadlocked as talks ended without an agreement on what to pay as a new minimum wage.

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The Tripartite Committee for the negotiation of a new minimum wage for Nigerian workers is yet to agree on a new minimum wage just about three days before the May 31 deadline the labour unions gave to the government to conclude the negotiations.