Minimum wage: Tinubu meets labour leaders, talks to continue next week

President Bola Tinubu and the leaders of the organized labour met on Thursday to deliberate on the new minimum wage for workers in the country.

The meeting held at the President’s office in the State House, Abuja, was attended by the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero; and his Trade Union Congress (TUC) counterpart, Festus Osifo.

President Tinubu had on Wednesday invited the labour leaders to a meeting in a bid to arrive at a common ground on the minimum wage.

The Federal Government had proposed N62,000 as the new minimum wage while the labour was pushing for N250,000 due to current realities in the country.

However, the meeting was adjourned to next week after about one-hour discussions between the parties.

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Ajaero, who addressed journalists at the end of the meeting, said the unions had discussions with the president on the minimum wage.

He stressed that the labour was not at the meeting for negotiation.

Ajaero said: “In the real sense, it wasn’t a negotiation but a discussion and we have had that discussion. We agreed to look at the real terms probably and reconvene in the next week.

“So that’s where we are because we didn’t go down there to talk naira and kobo. At least, there were some basic issues that we agreed on.”

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