Festus Osifo, the President of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), has said that the much-awaited new minimum wage may not be announced on May 1.
Mr Osifo revealed this while speaking with journalists on Friday in Abuja.
”The negotiation by the Tripartite Committee is still ongoing. If you remember, the TUC earlier submitted N447,000 as the new minimum wage but we have harmonised our figure with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC).
“It is now N615,000. Regarding the when for the new minimum wage, the committee is still working.
“So, certainly, May 1, will not work for the pronouncement of the new minimum wage. Except if the federal government wants to pay the minimum wage of N500,000 to workers,” he said.
He, however, said that the N615,000 demanded by the labour union is not sacrosanct.
”The government also has its markup and so conversations and negotiations will start and end somewhere,” he said.
He also noted that before the labour union concluded at that amount, a proper study was conducted.
”If you look at the N615,000, you will think that the amount is right but at about the time we did that computation, a dollar was about N1,700.
”I am hopeful that the committee will meet after May 1,” he said.
NAN reports that the 37-member tripartite committee on minimum wage was set up by the federal government to continue further negotiations and consultations on the new minimum wage.
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