NLC Rejects N27k as New Minimum Wage

Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Tuesday rejected the N27,000 new National Minimum Wage adopted by the National Council of State. 

NLC General Secretary, Peter Ozo-Eson, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja.

According to him,

the council has no jurisdiction determining another amount after a Tripartite Committee has submitted its report.

"It is abysmal of government to be delaying the submission of an Executive Bill to the National Assembly and by wrongfully adopting N27,000 through the council of states," he said. 

 Ozo-Eson, however, said NLC has called for an emergency National Executive Council ( NEC) meeting on Friday (Jan. 25) to weigh on the deadline given to Federal Government within which to submit an executive bill to the National Assembly.

NLC scribe added that the Federal Government was only projecting a shutdown of the economy with its latest action. 

"This is because workers should not be held responsible for any development after its NEC meeting on Friday," he said. 

● NAN