Labour Rejects Tinubu’s Minimum Wage Agreement Claims In Democracy Day Broadcast

The Organised Labour has rejected President Bola Tinubu’s claims that an agreement has been reached on new national minimum wages in his nationwide broadcast to make Democracy Day.

Osun Defender recalls that Tinubu had in his nationwide broadcast assured that he would send a new minimum wage bill to the National Assembly soon.

“We have negotiated in good fate and open arms with organized labour on a national minimum wage, we will soon send our executive bill to the National Assembly to enshrine what has been agreed upon in the next five years or less,” he said.

READ: New Minimum Wage To Be Sent To National Assembly Soon – Tinubu

However, according to Organized Labour at the time negotiations ended on Friday, June 7, there was no agreement reached by the Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage.

Rather, two figures such as N250,000 from Organised Labour and N62,000 from government and Organised Private Sector, OPS were arrived at and ought to have been submitted to the President.

In a statement by the Acting President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Prince Adewale Adeyanju, Labour noted that anything to the contrary was not only doctored but won’t be accepted by Labour.