The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said no agreement was reached at the end of the minimum wage tripartite negotiation.
The Congress said this in response to the president’s Democracy Day speech where he said that the N62,000 minimum wage proposal was negotiated in good faith.
The president had said, “In this spirit, we have negotiated in good faith and with open arms with organized labour on a new national minimum wage”.
Responding in a statement signed by NLC Acting President , Comrade Prince Adeyanju and made available to Orisun Igbomina 102.1FM, the congress said, “We are therefore surprised at the submission of Mr. President over a supposed agreement.
“We believe that he may have been misled into believing that there was an agreement with the NIC and TUC.
The NLC would have expected that the advisers of the President would have told him that we neither reached any agreement with the federal government and the employers on the base figure for a National Minimum Wage nor on its other components.
