The organised labour has suspended its strike scheduled for today (Monday) after a meeting between labour leaders and the Federal Government. This was contained in a communique read by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, after a technical session that started late on Sunday and lasted till the early hours … Continue reading Labour Suspends Planned Strike, FG To Put Electricity Tariff Hike On Hold …
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House of Reps approves N30,000 minimum wage
House of Representatives on Tuesday approved N30, 000 as the minimum wage for workers. The approval followed the adoption of the report by the ad hoc committee set up on the New Minimum Wage Bill sent to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday. The committee led by the deputy speaker Yusuf Lasun […]
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Akwa Ibom expresses willingness to pay new minimum wage
Akwa Ibom State governor Udom Emmanuel has said the state government was willing to pay its civil servants the proposed new minimum wage when enacted into law. “Minimum wage has never been an issue, it is just that it has been a matter of legislation. We are waiting for directions from the Federal government, once […]
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Minimum wage: Economy too fragile to withstand Labour strike in January, NECA warns
THE Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, yesterday, pleaded with the Federal Government to immediately send a draft bill on the N30,000 new national minimum wage to the National Assembly, NASS, for passage into law to save the nation from the consequences of the strike planned by Organised Labour in January 2019.
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Labour strike : Some marketers reluctant to sell petroleum products in Kano State
Some petroleum products marketers in Kano State have closed their filling stations in anticipation of the impending strike scheduled to begin on Tuesday by the organised labour.
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Labour may resume strike over new minimum wage
Bimbola Oyesola Organised Labour has warned that it would not guarantee industrial peace any longer if Federal Government continues to play double standard on the new minimum wage whose committee concluded its sitting on October 5. Reacting to claims by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, that the tripartite committee on the new […]
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Strike: Buhari’s Chief of Staff meets labour leaders
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, on Thursday met some labour leaders at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting was called to resolve the issues that led to the ongoing warning strike by workers. Kyari said he summoned the meeting with a view to ascertaining what stalled the […] …
Mininum wage meeting was successful, Ngige disagrees with Labour
Nigerian Government on Thursday said the meeting it had with organised labour unions on the minimum wage did not end in a deadlock as the union claimed on Wednesday. The organised labour afterwards went ahead with strike action. NLC president Ayuba Wabba, at a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, said both parties could not […] …
Banks, fuel supply crippled as Labour strike begins
Distribution of petroleum products, banking and other essential services will be grounded from today as workers in the petroleum, financial, maritime and other sectors of the economy begin a nationwide strike as directed by organized labour.
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Minister joins protest against boycott
A Moroccan minister, Lachen Daoudi, on Tuesday joined a sit-in held by workers whose company and its products have been boycotted by consumers since last month. According to Morrocan newspaper, Morocco World News, it was an unprecedented move on the part of the Minister of Governance and General Affairs. The minister’s participation in the sit-in, which […] …