The Nigeria Labour Congress has demanded N794,000 from the Federal Government as the new national minimum wage for workers in the South West geopolitical political zone.
According to The PUNCH, the demand was made by the labour union in the South West, through the chairperson of the Lagos State chapter of the NLC, Funmi Sessi, during her presentation at the ongoing public hearing of the Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage in Ikeja, Lagos on Thursday.
Sessi explained that the demand was jointly agreed on by all the members of the union in the South West .
President Bola Tinubu, through Vice President Kashim Shettima, inaugurated a 37-member panel on the new minimum wage in the Council Chamber of the State House in Abuja on January 30, 2024.
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, in an interview on Arise TV on February 11, had disclosed that if the ongoing inflation continued, organised labour might push for a new minimum wage of up to N1m for Nigerian workers.
