{"id":72020,"date":"2018-12-22T11:13:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T10:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=72020"},"modified":"2018-12-22T11:13:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T10:13:36","slug":"new-minimum-wage-fg-reacts-to-labours-december-31-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=72020","title":{"rendered":"New Minimum Wage: FG reacts to Labour’s December 31 deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Federal Government on Friday, urged the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), to discard the December 31 ultimatum over lingering disagreement between organised labour and state governments on the proposed N30,000 national minimum wage.<\/p>\n

Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, made the appeal while speaking with State House correspondents, after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.<\/p>\n

The organised labour had on Thursday, given the ultimatum following Buhari\u2019s statement that a \u201chigh powered technical committee\u201d would be set up, to device ways to ensure that implementation of new minimum wage would not lead to an increase in the level of borrowing.<\/p>\n

However, the NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, who addressed newsmen on Thursday, expressed organized labour\u2019s reservation over President Buhari\u2019s position, saying that setting up a technical committee could not be a condition for passing the minimum wage report to the National Assembly.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe reject in its entirety the plan to set up another `high powered technical committee\u2019 on the minimum wage. It is diversionary and a delay tactics,\u201d he had stated<\/p>\n

But Mohammed, who described the NLC as \u201ca very patriotic union\u201d, said he was confident the organized labour would not do anything that would embarrass the government or Nigerians.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThe Nigeria Labour Congress is a very patriotic union and I am very confident that they will not do anything that will embarrass the government or do anything that is going to worsen the situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cContinuous engagement I think is the key, we will continue to engage them and I think they do also fully understand what the challenges are, and both parties are determined to ensure that a common ground is arrived at which will be comfortable for all.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Federal Government on Friday, urged the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), to discard the December 31 ultimatum over lingering disagreement between organised labour and state governments on the proposed N30,000 national minimum wage. Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, made the appeal while speaking with State House correspondents, after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}