The Trade Union Congress has warned that workers were running out of patience with the Federal Government over the delay in the negotiation of a new minimum wage.
The Nigeria’s current minimum wage is N18,000 with organised labour asking it be increased to at least N50,000
The Chairman, TUC, Federal Capital Territory Chapter, Mr Ahmed Olayinka, while speaking during an awareness rally on the forthcoming International Workers, Day celebration slated for May 1, in Abuja warned that the workers cannot wait indefinitely for the government.
He added that in view of the hardship been experienced by Nigerian workers as a result of economic recession, the government should fast-track the implementation of the proposed new minimum wage.
On March 6, 2011, former president Goodluck Jonathan signed the N18,000 National Minimum Wage into law.
The new wage law states that once an employer in the public or private sector has a workforce of about 50 persons, he or she is bound by the law to pay a minimum wage of N18,000.
The signing of the law increased the national minimum wage across the country from N7, 500 to N18,000 per month.
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