Ekohotblog reports that the President of the Lagos State branch of the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Comrade Ogunfowora Sewanu Sunday, has called on the Lagos State Government to pay Local Government workers the newly approved ₦70,000 minimum wage without delay. Speaking at a Workers’ Forum held at the Epe Local Government … Read more
By Kunle Aremu The Nigeria’s constitution has provided room for the review of national minimum wage but it seems the organised labour unions and those representing the Federal Government do not actually understand the context of that law. This was the import of the argument of the former Lagos State Governor Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) … Read more
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the federal government of Nigeria on Tuesday, inaugurated a 37-man Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage with a mandate to recommend a new National Minimum Wage for the Country. The committee was inaugurated by Vice President Kashim Shettima at the council chamber of the Aso Rock Presidential Villa. EDITOR’S PICKS Trailer … Read more
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the organized Labour and the Federal Government are at loggerheads due to the cessation of the N35,000 wage award previously promised to workers. Workers across the Federal Civil Service voiced their discontent, revealing that the government had only honored the wage award for the month of September. EDITOR’S PICKS Top … Read more
Britain’s minimum wage is to increase by more than four times the rate of UK inflation from next year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government announced Tuesday. A 6.2-percent increase from April takes the so-called national living wage for workers aged 25 and over from £8.21 to a minimum £8.72 ($10.79 to $11.52, 9.63 euros to … Read more