Minimum Wage: Labour To Go Ahead with Strike

Even with the affirmation by the 36 states governors of their readiness to pay the N18,000 minimum wage prescribed by the recently amended National Minimum Wage Act, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Sunday insisted that it would go on with its planned three-day warning strike.

The strike to protest governments' and private employers' unwillingness to abide by the provisions of the revised National Minimum Wage Act will begin on Wednesday, July 20. It is expected to usher in an indefinite and total strike in the event of government's continued failure to implement the provisions of the Act.www.mannastores.com