The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has clarified that it is not the organizer of the planned nationwide hunger protest scheduled…
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Ajaero confirmed that ₦70,000 was the current agreed amount for the minimum wage. He also mentioned that part of the discussion included an agreement that the minimum wage would now be reviewed every three years, rather than waiting five years for a review. Ajaero stated that the Organised Labour would consult with their members on the ₦70,000 benchmark.
President Bola Tinubu will meet with the Organised Labour in Abuja on Thursday to further discussions on a new minimum…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged the Federal Government to implement the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention 190 (C190) on violence and harassment in the workplace.
“This notion is not only dictatorial but also undermines the very essence as well as the model adopted for creating a national wage in Nigeria,” the Union said in a Friday statement by its Head of Information and Public Affairs Benson Upah.
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has kicked against the call by some politicians for decentralised minimum wage negotiations.
“Therefore, it seems obvious from this definition that by making a law in Section 3(1) of the Minimum Wage Act that the minimum wage of N30,000 shall be paid monthly, the NASS may have acted unconstitutionally by legislating on a SALARY (monthly payment) when they only have power to legislate on WAGES, an hourly payment.
The Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) had said that the 774 local government councils cannot afford to pay…
There is no Nigerian that will tell you he is not aware of the NLC even if he does not know that it is an acronym for the Nigeria Labour Congress. What the average Nigerian knows about them is that they always go on strike at the drop of a hat, strikes that have lost their meaning because they always achieve almost nothing.
The following day, NEC will accept to temporarily call off the general strike after accepting the meagre offer on the table while claiming offer demands will be eventually met. Workers who had been mobilised, riled up and emotionally charged would be demobilized, downcast and disappointed with their radical leaders who suddenly turned coat and became docile and “reasonable”. That’s the end of the story until the next general strikes.