FG INVITES LABOUR FOR BRIEFING JANUARY 4

The federal government has invited the leadership of the organised labour for a meeting on January 4, 2019, to brief the workforce on the steps taken by the government to ensure the implementation of the new minimum wage. 

The government has also clarified that the Technical Committee proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari for the new minimum wage was not meant to review the report of the Minimum Wage Tripartite Committee. 

Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige disclosed yesterday that the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami was studying the minimum wage bill submitted by the Tripartite Committee. 

He was optimistic that the organised labour and the federal government would reach a common ground on the new minimum wage. There is no bad situation. We are meeting them (labour) on January 4, and we have sent them a letter inviting them. I will meet them with the Budget and Planning Minister on January 4, so that they will know what government is doing. Nigige also clarified that the technical committee to be set up is not for the review of the minimum wage but to advise the executive. 

(ThisDay )