Minister of Labour and
Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has provided update on the Federal Government’s
meeting with the organized labour.
Ngige led the government
delegation to the meeting with labour in Abuja, yesterday.
Labour had after the meeting
declared that its national protest will hold on Tuesday over FG’s delay in
transmitting the new minimum wage bill to the National Assembly.
Ngige, who spoke with journalists
immediately after the meeting, said that the FG was making effort to speed up
the process of transmitting the bill despite the challenge of time.
“It has been difficult to arrive
at a date because there are processes to follow on the bill.
“We have to go to the Federal Executive
Council with a council memo on the bill. After that, we will go to the National
Economic Council and the Council of State.
“We can control the Federal
Executive Council date, the same with NEC, but for the National Council of
State, the President has to look at his own timetable and we inform past heads
of state and justice of the federation.
“This can take two weeks but we
are trying to see if we can accommodate all these meetings by next week because
we cannot do Council of State meeting again this week. Immediately after that
meeting (Council of State), we will transmit.”
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