Fuel subsidy: NLC absent as Nigerian govt meets TUC, Tinubu to set up committee on minimum wage

The Federal Government on Sunday met with the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in a bid to resolve the crisis trailing the removal of fuel subsidy in the country.

The spokesman for President Bola Tinubu, who addressed State House correspondents at the end of the meeting in Abuja, said the federal government would consider the Congress push for a review of the minimum wage and other demands.

The TUC President, Festus Osifo, led the congress executives to the meeting.

However, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) was not represented at the session.

The NLC had given the federal government till Wednesday to revert to the old prices of petrol or risk a nationwide strike over the removal of fuel subsidy.

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The presidential spokesman said the federal government was also considering tax holidays for workers.

He added that President Tinubu would set up a tripartite committee to include states, organised labour and the private sector to study the dynamics of the minimum wage and reach an amicable solution on the matter.

Alake also dismissed rumours of disagreement with NLC over its demand for a review of the minimum wage or insistence on the return to the old fuel pump price.

On his part, the TUC president urged the government to revert to the old pump price in the interest of Nigerians.

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