The Federal Executive Council chaired by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has approved a 29-member National Minimum Wage Committee to negotiate with labour unions and work out a new minimum wage. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige disclosed this on at the end of the weekly meeting of the Council held in the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday.
He stated that the approval of the committee followed the council’s deliberation on the report of the joint committee of government and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC).
Ngige said that membership of the committee would be drawn from Governors’ Forum, organised private sector and organised labour.The Chairman and Secretary of the Committee will be appointed by the Federal Government, he added.
According to the minister, the Federal Government will present six members of the committee from the public sector; Governors’ Forum will select six governors (one from each geo-political zone), and labour federation will present eight persons.
He added that the organised employers association would jointly present eight persons as members of the committee.
