The Federal Government on Friday,
urged the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), to discard the December 31 ultimatum
over lingering disagreement between organised labour and state governments on
the proposed N30,000 national minimum wage.
Minister of Information, Lai
Mohammed, made the appeal while speaking with State House correspondents, after
a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential
Villa, Abuja.
The organised labour had on
Thursday, given the ultimatum following Buhari’s statement that a “high powered
technical committee” would be set up, to device ways to ensure that
implementation of new minimum wage would not lead to an increase in the level
of borrowing.
However, the NLC President, Ayuba
Wabba, who addressed newsmen on Thursday, expressed organized labour’s
reservation over President Buhari’s position, saying that setting up a
technical committee could not be a condition for passing the minimum wage report
to the National Assembly.
“We reject in its entirety the
plan to set up another `high powered technical committee’ on the minimum wage.
It is diversionary and a delay tactics,” he had stated
But Mohammed, who described the
NLC as “a very patriotic union”, said he was confident the organized labour
would not do anything that would embarrass the government or Nigerians.
He said: “The Nigeria Labour
Congress is a very patriotic union and I am very confident that they will not
do anything that will embarrass the government or do anything that is going to
worsen the situation.
“Continuous engagement I think is
the key, we will continue to engage them and I think they do also fully
understand what the challenges are, and both parties are determined to ensure
that a common ground is arrived at which will be comfortable for all.”
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