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Nigeria sets eight-week timeline to agree minimum wage with unions

Nigeria sets eight-week timeline to agree minimum wage with unions

CAMILLUS EBOH NIGERIA'S main labour unions and the government set an eight-week timeline to finalise an agreement to raise the minimum wage to help cushion the impact of high fuel prices after the removal of a popular but costly petrol subsidy. The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) had threatened to strike after fuel prices tripled following President Bola Tinubu's decision to scrap the subsidy. Talks with the unions are one of the first challenges the new administration faces as it pushes forward with a raft of economic reforms. The parties agreed to set up work groups whose terms…
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Nigerian union members protest over possible minimum wage change

Nigerian union members protest over possible minimum wage change

ABRAHAM ACHIRGA and CAMILLUS EBOH HUNDREDS of members of Nigeria's main labour unions marched to the parliament building in the capital on Wednesday in protest against a possible change to the minimum wage system. President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 signed into law a bill to increase Nigeria's monthly minimum wage to 30,000 naira ($79) from 18,000. Unions had gone on strike in late 2018 to push for the rise. A bill now under discussion in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament, suggests a change whereby the country's 36 states would each set their own minimum wage rather…
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