NLC proposes N200,000 Minimum Wage for negotiation with FG

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has proposed that the new minimum wage may be negotiated to N100,000 or N200,000 with the federal government  to reflect the rising cost of living in the country.

The NLC President, Joe Ajaero, had in a media interaction explained that the Congress and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) suspended the planned national strike last Tuesday after a meeting with the federal government in Abuja on Monday, to give the government time to fulfill its part of the agreement reached with Labour.

Joe Ajero proposing N200,000 Minimum Wage for negotiation with FG

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Ajero noted that the N35,000 wage award was only part of the government’s offers, clarifying that it is not a new minimum wage.

According to him: “So, it is not a minimum wage but it is a wage added to the minimum wage. So, should we in March, April, or before that time negotiate the new wage to be N100,000 or N200,000, it would be inscribed as minimum wage law which should be the law in existence.”

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The NLC President was cited to had maintained: “certain things would come into play when we discuss it – inflation, cost of living. Every other thing would come into it.

“We would not go to ask for N65,000. We would go for a realistic amount because N65,000 is about $70 which is not up to minimum wage.”

Ajero added that “the minimum wage is a product of law. Until it is legislated in the National Assembly, it is not a minimum wage.”

The Organised Labour had suspended the national strike for 30 days.