MINIMUM WAGE BOARD SETS BALL ROLLING

The lowest pay permitted by law board starts thoughts 

    – The 15-man panel introduced by the Federal Government on the execution of the new the lowest pay permitted by law for specialists has begun sitting. A few individuals from the board of trustees at the weekend said that it had met once. Mr Chris Onyedika, Acting General Secretary of a group of the NLC and an individual from the 15-man board, additionally affirmed that it had begun considerations on the assention came to between the Federal Government and groups of the Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC) in May, this year. "The 15-man board will audit the Federal Government's liberalization of the downstream area of the petroleum business, prompting the new fuel pump cost of N145 per liter. "The advisory groups will talk about and prescribe another national the lowest pay permitted by law, the N500 billion palliatives being proposed by the Federal Government and the re-constitution of the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency Board, among different issues, before displaying their proposals to government,'' Onyedika said. NAN reviews that the legislature in May expanded the cost of Petrol from N97.00 to N145 per liter, which prompted some unsettling and a notice strike by Organized Labor. The Joint Negotiation Council had likewise begun to foment for an expansion in national the lowest pay permitted by law for specialists, which was last checked on five years back. In the interim, at the current year's International Labor Organization (ILO) gathering in Geneva , Switzerland, members urged the ILO to advance the sanction and usage of the Minimum Wage Fixing Convention, 1970. The NLC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), the two focal work associations in the nation have proposed N56, 000 as the new national the lowest pay permitted by law to the Federal Government, as against the current N18, 000. The present national the lowest pay permitted by law which recommended N18, 000 was ordered in 2011

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