Breaking: FG offers new minimum wage

The Federal Government, and the organised private sector have proposed a new minimum wage of N62,000, as against the former one of N60,000

This was reached after several hours of meeting on Friday, by the committee set up to review the minimum wage.

However, the organised labour is proposing N250,000 which is a shift from its earlier N494,000.

This brings to and end the deliberations on the new minimum wage by the tripartite committee set up by the Federal Government after several months.

The recommendations will be forwarded to President Tinubu, who is expected to send an executive bill to the National Assembly for legislative action.

With the work of the tripartite committee which was constituted in January this year coming to an end, the ball now shifts to the table of President Tinubu and subsequently that of the National Assembly.

Though both labour, the organised private sector and the Federal Government had agreed that the current minimum wage of N30,000 is no longer sustainable with the present economic reality of the country, agreeing a figure for the new minimum wage had for long proved abortive.

While the government and the organised private sector viewed labour’s proposed N494,000 as over the roof, labour felt the offer of N60,000 was not considerate.

What will now be the reaction of the labour Congress with this new proposal?