By Our Correspondent<\/p>\n
In a bid to improve the welfare of Nigerian workers, the federal government declared on Friday that it has commenced consultations ahead of fresh negotiations on the national minimum wage..<\/p>\n
Permanent secretary, federal ministry of Labour and Employment, Dr Kamil Shoretire, who disclosed this during a capacity-building workshop for labour correspondents in Abuja, said that although the government had not announced a timetable for the formal commencement of negotiations, background consultations were already underway.<\/p>\n
He said: “We are yet to announce the timetable for that, but background discussions are already ongoing. When it\u2019s time to get the press involved in what has been proposed and what is being negotiated, it will be revealed to you,\u201d.<\/p>\n
The permanent secretary stressed that the consultations were part of wider efforts to address wage and allowance issues across different sectors, noting that collective bargaining discussions were also ongoing with workers in sectors such as health and education.<\/p>\n
According to him: \u201cVarious discussions with health, education and other sectors that have lots of issues in terms of wages and allowances are ongoing and they are being fast-tracked so that the ones that are agreed will reflect in next year\u2019s budget,\u201d.<\/p>\n
The permanent secretary also disclosed that the Federal Government had responded to a complaint filed against it by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) at the International Labour Organisation (ILO).<\/p>\n
He said, Nigeria met the September 1 deadline set by the ILO to respond to outstanding issues raised in the complaint.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me start with the ILO. We have met the deadline. We have responded to the request from ILO. I was there when a complaint was filed by the NLC against the Nigerian government at the ILO on some of the labour issues that are yet to be resolved in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe responded at the ILO, but we also got that certain areas were not addressed or were pending. So those ones were the ones that we got a deadline on September 1, and we have responded accordingly”, he said. <\/p>\n
The NLC had petitioned the ILO at the International Labour Conference in Geneva, alleging violations of workers\u2019 rights under the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949, otherwise known as Convention No. 98.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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