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Minimum Wage: At Last Labour And Government Have Reach Consensus

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The Federal Government and the organised labour have finally reached an agreement on the consequential adjustment and subsequent implementation of the new minimum wage.

Festus Keyamo, the State Minister for labour and Productivity disclosed this through his tweeter handle last night while both parties were still in a meeting.

 

Keyamo revealed, “After some delicate negotiations (with both ministers as conciliators), the government and the labour have finally reached an agreement on the consequential adjustment of other wages following the implementation of the enhanced minimum wage of N30, 000. a communiqué will be released in due course.

 

Accordingly, to a source within the parties who spoke on condition of anonymity, the new template has been agreed such that; workers on grade level 7 has a shift to 23.2 percent; level 8, 20 percent; level 9, 19 percent; level 10 to14,16 percent and 14 – 17,14 percent.

 

The 14-day ultimatum which the organised labour issued the government to embark on industrial had elapsed on Tuesday.

 

There had been reports that Federal Government had agreed to a 20 percent and 13.5 percent consequential adjustments for workers on grade levels 7 to14 and 15 to 17 respectively. However, Ayuba Wabba, the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, had slammed the report describing it as a mere speculation.

 

Formerly the organised labour had demanded 29 percent salary increase for officers on salary level 7 to 14 and 24 per cent adjustment for officers on salary grade level 15 to 17. The Federal Government, however, offered a proposal of 11 percent increase for officers on grade level 07 to14 and 6.5 percent increment for workers on grade level 15 to 17.

 

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