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Update: Senate Passes N70,000 Minimum Wage Bill for Workers
The Senate passed a Bill on Tuesday, July 23, amending the National Minimum Wage Act to increase the minimum wage from N30,000 to N70,000 after the first, second, and third readings. By this development,...
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BREAKING: President Tinubu Presents Minimum Wage bill to House of Reps, Seeks Speedy Passage
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has presented the Minimum Wage bill to the House of Representatives for consideration and passage into law. The bill is expected to legalise the N70, 000 minimum wage recently agreed...
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Minimum Wage: Federal Govt to introduce amendment to 2024 Budget
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has mandated the Minister of Budget and Economic Planning to come up with an amendment bill to the 2024 Budget to be presented to the National Assembly for legislation....
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No Going Back On N250,000 Minimum Wage, TUC Insists
The Trade Union Congress (TUC) President Festus Osifo has said there was no going back in the decision of the organized Labour to get N250,000 as Minimum Wage. Speaking at the inaugural Annual Convention...
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Withheld Salaries: SSANU, NASU Members Stage Nationwide Protests
Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), on Tuesday, July 9, staged nationwide protests within campuses of public universities to...
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Minimum Wage: Labour Rejects Govs’ Stance On Negotiations
Labour, including the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, has rejected the proposal of the Southern Governors’ Forum to decentralise minimum wage negotiations to state governments. The NLC condemned the proposal as...
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Minimum Wage: Govs Want State To Negotiate With Labour
Governors from the Southern part of Nigeria, under the aegis of the Southern Governors’ Forum, yesterday called for the consideration of the ability of each state to pay the new minimum wage.Their call came...
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UPDATED: Labour Kicks As FEC Steps Down Memo, Says Action Giving Room For Speculation
The Organised Labour on Tuesday kicked against the Federal Executive Council’s decision to step down the memorandum on the report of the Tripartite Committee on New National Minimum Wage. The Head of Public Relations...
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774 Councils Can’t Afford To Pay N62,000 Wage, Say LG Chairmen
The raging controversy over the proposed new minimum wage remains unabated as Chairmen of the 774 local governments yesterday, said they would not be able to pay N62,000. They dismissed the N250,000 proposal by...
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Minimum Wage: Tinubu Promises To Send Bill To NASS Soon
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday said he would soon send a bill to the National Assembly to enshrine what has been agreed upon with labour as new National Minimum wage as part of the...
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