{"id":35052,"date":"2019-10-03T14:33:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T13:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=35052"},"modified":"2019-10-03T14:33:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T13:33:41","slug":"labour-rejects-governments-minimum-wage-offer-issues-two-week-ultimatum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/labour-rejects-governments-minimum-wage-offer-issues-two-week-ultimatum\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Rejects Government\u2019s Minimum Wage Offer, Issues Two-week Ultimatum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The organised labour in Nigeria comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress have given the Nigerian Government two weeks to implement the new minimum wage of N30, 000 or risk a nationwide industrial action.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by presidents of the two unions, the organised labour accused the government\u2019s negotiating team of complacency.<\/p>\n<p>Labour insisted that the delay in implementing the consequential salaries adjustment was caused by the government.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>The workers\u2019 unions demanded a reconvening of the negotiation meeting before October 16, adding that they would not guarantee industrial harmony after the deadline.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix after-story-ad-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"views-row col-small-6 col-large-4\">\n<div class=\"block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\">\n<div class=\"adunit-parent block-module-image-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"story-desktop-300x250-comments-1\" class=\"block-module-image adunit adunit-loaded\" data-adunit=\"story-desktop-300x250-comments\" data-adsize=\"300,250\" data-adscreenmin=\"768\" data-google-query-id=\"CIm5i--XgOUCFULW7Qod8pgA7A\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organised labour in Nigeria comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress have given the Nigerian Government two weeks to implement the new minimum wage of N30, 000 or risk a nationwide industrial action.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1593,17,624],"tags":[6233,6234,6235],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-35052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-business","category-metro","category-news","category-politics","tag-minimum-wage-offer","tag-nigeria-labour-congress","tag-trade-union-congress"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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