The Tripartite Committee constituted by the Federal Government on National Minimum Wage has concluded negotiation with a recommendation of N62,000 as monthly minimum wage for civil servants.
The recommendation was disclosed late Friday night after a marathon meeting of the committee in Abuja.
LEADERSHIP reports that the federal government and Organised Private Sector (OPS) agreed on the N62,000 offer as the new National Minimum Wage, but the Organized Labour has made up its mind, insisting on N250,000 figure.
The disagreement is likely to force the umbrella bodies of the civil servants in the country – Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress – to reactivate its relaxed indefinite strike action earlier embarked upon by their members on Monday.
It will be recalled that the Tripartite Committee had earlier offered N60,000 as minimum wage to the workers, a development which made the Organised Labour to withdraw from the negotiation table and declared an indefinite strike action to press home its demands.
At the end of the first day of the devastating strike action on Monday, the SGF, Senator George Akume, spearheaded a meeting with the Labour unions afterwhich a four-point resolution was reached, including a commitment by President Bola Tinubu to pay a new minimum wage higher than the N60,000 offer.
Thereafter on Tuesday, the President told the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, to work a realistic national minimum wage within 48 hours.
At press time on Friday night, the formal reaction of the Organised Labour on the latest development was being awaited. (Leadership Newspaper)
