Again, Labour rejects FG’s proposed N60,000 minimum wage

The organised labour has again rejected the Federal Government’s proposed N60,000 after adding N3,000 to the initial N57,000.

The Informant247 gathered that the new proposed N60,000 minimum was pronounced during a meeting of the tripartite committee on minimum wage in Abuja.

It would be recalled that the organised labour, comprising the Trade Union Congress and the Nigeria Labour Congress, have also gone down by N3,000 from its last proposal of N497,000 in the previous minimum wage meeting.

According to PUNCH report reports, a source who gave the breakdown at the Tuesday meeting said the amount proposed by the government did not go down well with labour leaders.

A union member who spoke to newsmen before the meeting started disclosed that the organised labour would only go lower if the government had gone higher on its demands.

“This is simply a case of if they go higher, we will go lower. They need to propose something reasonable for us to propose something lower, too. There is no two-way about it.

“Also, we have a way of meeting as members of the Labour before each committee meeting. This will help us to take a uniform stand by the time we get to the meeting front.

“So as long as the government is ready to present something reasonable, we will meet them in the middle,” the labour leader said.