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Labour sets two-week target for minimum wage law
A new national minimum wage law is possible within two weeks if the presidency submits the bill this week to the National Assembly for passage, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) affirmed yesterday.
In an exclusive interview in Abuja, NLC president, Ayuba Wabba, told The Guardian that with the tremendous goodwill the organised labour enjoys at the National Assembly, lawmakers would expedite action on the bill.
His comment followed President Muhammadu Buhari’s receipt yesterday of the report of the tripartite committee on the review of the national minimum wage. While government stuck to N24,000, the organised labour insisted on N30,000.
Wabba said: “The organised labour wants to assure the Nigerian people that once the report is submitted today, labour would be considering what timeframe we think would be sufficient enough for the presidency to transmit it to the National Assembly.
The Guardian, November 7, 2018
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