The Nigeria Labour Congress says its demand for the new National Minimum Wage remains N250,000
The Acting President of the NLC, Adewale Adeyanju, disclosed this in a statement, while reacting to President Bola Tinubu’s Democracy Day speech on Wednesday, in Abuja.
Adeyanju said the Congress appreciates the President’s commitment to those fine democratic ideals which allowed the work of the Tripartite National Minimum Wage Negotiation Committee to proceed unhindered despite some hiccups.
He reaffirmed the union’s belief that the president, on whose table the Tripartite Committee’s report presently resides, would prepare an Executive Bill which would reflect the true demand of Nigerian workers.
The acting President further said the NLC, which is assured that the president’s democratic credentials will favour Nigerian workers and masses, never agreed on a five-year duration of the minimum wage Act though he acknowledged that the president mentioned five years or less.
The NLC argued that inflation should be pegged at a level for certain amount to be agreed as minimum wage.
