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The unions demanded an increase in the monthly minimum wage from ₦30,000 to ₦494,000. [1] [3] [4] The NLC stated that its aims were to establish a "living wage" and described the current minimum wage as a "starvation wage". [5] They also demanded the reversal of the government's electricity tariff hike, which had caused a rising price of ...
Unions were asking for the current minimum wage of 30,000 naira to be increased to nearly 500,000, which the government rejected, resulting in a fresh strike that grounded Africa’s most populous ...
Nigerian labour law looks into the rights, working conditions, minimum wage, termination clauses, and many other rules set by the government of Nigeria. The current version of the act was put into place in 2004, five years after their current constitution was established. [1] A group of men in Africa ploughing with oxen.
18 July – The Nigeria Labour Congress, the Trade Union Congress, and the Nigerian government agree on a new minimum wage of ₦70,000 (US$43) per month, ending prolonged negotiations amid high inflation and a weakening currency. [28] 26 July–11 August – Nigeria at the 2024 Summer Olympics [29]
ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria's main labour unions on Friday said they had declared an indefinite strike from Monday after failing to agree a new minimum wage with the government. The Nigerian Labour ...
Looking ahead: Again, the minimum wage in Tennessee hasn’t budged since 2009, when the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 took effect. An effort to boost the state’s minimum wage to $12 by ...
The democratic government of Shehu Shagari (1979 - 1983) built on the earlier initiatives and began planning for a training institute to be located at Ilorin in 1983. [14] In 1986, a decree establishing the National Institute of Labour Studies was enacted, the new legislation placed made it a statutory center within the Federal Ministry of ...
The existing minimum wage, which was introduced six years earlier but has not been adjusted since, has been whittled away by inflation to only US$42.80 per month. [ 146 ] According to the International Organization for Migration , the number of immigrants residing in Nigeria has more than doubled in recent decades – from 477,135 in 1991 to ...