The Organised Labour has officially presented a fresh demand for
higher new National Minimum Wage for workers to the Federal Government
Tripartite Committee using current economic indices.
Dr Peter Ozo-Eson, General
Secretary, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), made this known in an interview with
the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja.
Organised Labour had two
years ago demanded for N56, 000 as the national minimum wage for workers in the
country.
Ozo-Eson said that the fresh
demand for the higher wage was submitted at the last meeting of the tripartite
committee on March 27.
“In responding to the request
for a memorandum, we then use current economic indices to make a fresh demand.
So, what we place and what we demand is an outcome of analysis we carried out.
“We are going to maintain what is in the
memorandum that we have submitted to the tripartite committee and it is not
something or a figure we will be discussing in public, ‘’he said.
He also said that the fresh
demand was a joint memorandum by the NLC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC).
The NLC General Secretary
added that we have formerly submitted it at the last meeting of the tripartite
committee.
“We have also formerly made
the presentation to the committee and we have defended it.
“We have also taken into
account changes between the first demand and the current position, Ozo-Eson
said
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