The organised labour has said it would not accept N100,000 as minimum wage after rejecting the proposed N62,000 for workers.
The organised labour made this known as the 37-member Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage submitted its report to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday.
The President of NLC, Joe Ajaero, speaking from Geneva where he is attending the ongoing International Labour Conference declared that the earlier embarked strike remains suspended.
He, said the organised labour would wait for the president to consider the figures submitted by the tripartite committee on minimum wage before further action would be taken.
“The tripartite committee submitted two figures to the president. Government and employers proposed N62,000 while labour proposed N250,000. We are waiting for the decision of the president.
“Our National Executive Council (NEC) will deliberate on the new figure when it is out. We cannot declare strike now because the figures are with the president. We will wait for the president’s decision,” he stated.
Ajaero recalled that during the tenure of the immediate-past president (Buhari), the figure that was proposed to him by the tripartite committee was N27,000 but he increased it to N30, 000.
He, therefore, expressed hope that President Tinubu would also do the right thing, pointing out that there exists a wide gulf between the N250,000 labour was requesting and N62,000.
Ajaero also lampooned the state governors under the umbrella body of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum for rejecting the N62,000 minimum wage proposal.
