The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has demanded the immediate implementation of the new national minimum wage by all tiers of government.
In a communiqué signed the president, Dr. Ayuba Wabba, and the immediate past general secretary, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, after its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting yesterday in Kano, organised labour insisted that action on the policy should be effective from the day President Muhammadu Buhari assented to the law.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the new minimum wage bill, which was signed into law by the president in April this year, had been stalled over the issue of relativity and consequential adjustment of salaries in deliberations between government and labour. Read more