National Minimum Wage: No agreement with Tinubu yet—Organised Labour

The Organised Labour has denied President Bola Tinubu’s claims that an agreement was reached on new national minimum wages.

Tinubu have the impression that there was an agreed national minimum wage in his nationwide broadcast on Wednesday 12 June.

According to the Organized Labour, at the time negotiations ended on Friday, June 7, there was no agreement reached by the Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage.

Rather, two figures such as N250,000 from Organised Labour and N62,000 from government and Organised Private Sector, OPS were arrived at and ought to have been submitted to the President.

In a statement by the Acting President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Prince Adewale Adeyanju, Labour noted that anything to the contrary was not only doctored but won’t be accepted by Labour.