The President of the Trade Union Congress, Bobboi Kaigama, reportedly told Punch newspaper on Saturday that the organised labour is demanding N56,000 and that they want the executive of the government to set up a committee to speed up the process.
“The procedure is for the tripartite body to sit down and agree on a figure, present it to the National Executive Council, National Council of State and to the National Assembly,” he said.
On the other hand, the Nigerian Labour Congress has commended the recommendation of the House of Representatives but said that the process to determine an approved minimum wage has started with a tripartite engagement involving the labour, the private sector and the government. The General Secretary of the NLC, Peter Ezon, also speaking to the Punch newspaper said that the tripartite arrangement would recommend the minimum wage to the government and in turn take it to the National Assembly for legislation.
“We welcome the concerns of the House of Representatives members and we also beg them to put more pressure on government to institute the process of the tripartite committee so that it can be concluded and returned to the National Assembly,” Ezon said.
