The United Kingdom government has increased the general salary threshold for those arriving in the UK on a Skilled Worker visa from £26,200 to £38,700. According to the Home Secretary, James Cleverly, the minimum wage increased by 48 per cent to cut migration and put British workers first in force. Changes that are now in force will slash migration and …

The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has distanced itself from the N500,000 being canvassed as the new minimum wage, saying it has yet to adopt a position on an amount to be presented to the tripartite committee on the new minimum wage for workers. The President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero, disclosed this in an interview with Sunday PUNCH in Yola, …

The Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage has called for the participation of stakeholders in proposing and implementing a new minimum wage for Nigerian workers. The Chairman of the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, Ekpo Nta, in a statement released on Friday, said the committee would hold a public hearing on 7th March. It was reported that the …

The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero said most governors of the 37-Member Tripartite Committee On Minimum Wage are not complying with the proposed base pay structure. Ajaero stated this in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday. Earlier, Vice President Kashim Shettima had inaugurated the committee in Abuja on Tuesday, saying the decision was …

The federal government will on Tuesday, inaugurate a 37-man Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage with a mandate to recommend a new national minimum wage for the country. In a statement by the director of Information in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF), Segun Imohiosen, the planned inauguration of the Committee is sequel to …

Ahead of negotiations for the payment of a new minimum wage scheduled to commence in April 2024, the organised labour has submitted a list of its representatives who will represent Nigerian workers on the negotiation panel which is set to be constituted by the Federal Government. For a new minimum wage to be implemented, a tripartite committee is often set …

The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA), has called on the Federal Government to set machinery in motion on minimum wage review, in accordance with the 2019 Act, advising that issues of wage increase and business sustainability should be dealt with concurrently. The Director-General of NECA, Adewale-Smatt Oyerinde, who made the call yesterday, also urged the government not to lose sight …

The Senate said that it would give the proposed new minimum wage bill from the Executive arm of government expeditious consideration towards ensuring improved welfare for Nigerian workers and industrial harmony in the country. In a statement in Abuja on Friday, the Chairman Senate Committee on Employment, Labour, and Productivity, Senator Diket Plang (APC – Plateau Central) assured Nigerians that …

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has described Nigerian workers’ minimum wage of $30 for 30 days as extremely poor and called for an urgent upward review of the wage structure. The chamber, in its Independence Day message yesterday, said an appraisal of the past 63 years showed that the Nigerian economy had performed sub-optimally with huge implications …

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said governors were ignorant of what minimum wage was all about. In an interview on the sidelines of the ongoing 111th session of the International Labour Conference (ILC) in Geneva, Switzerland, NLC General Secretary, Comrade Emma Ugboaja said governors had made a mockery of minimum wage. While lamenting that they (governors) ought to have …