Invites labour for briefing Jan 4
Bill to be forwarded to NASS after recess
It’s delay tactics by govt—Labour
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru
ABUJA—THE Federal Government has said that the Technical Committee announced by President Muhammadu Buhari to be set up on the new Minimum Wage was not to review the report of the Minimum Wage Tripartite Committee.
Besides, the government team on the new minimum wage has invited the leadership of the organised labour for a meeting on Friday to brief the workforce on the steps government was taking to ensure the implementation of a new wage.
Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, told Vanguard on telephone that the Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, was looking through the minimum wage bill submitted by the tripartite committee.
He said: “There is no bad situation, we are meeting them (labour) on January 4, and we have sent them a letter inviting them….
