Oyo, Labour begin minimum wage adjustment negotiations tomorrow

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Representatives of the Oyo State Government and the Organised Labour will, tomorrow (Thursday), begin negotiations on consequential adjustment for a new minimum wage in the state.

Governor Seyi Makinde had recently declared that his administration would commence the payment of N70,000 minimum wage once the issue of consequential salary adjustment has been addressed.

Makinde then announced the extension of the N25,000 wage award to workers and the N15,000 to pensioners for another three months.

The tone for subsequent negotiations would be set at Thursday’s meeting with the government presenting its proposed table adjustment for each grade level.

However, the labour representatives will be looking at the Federal Government’s consequential adjustment template as a desired template.

In the letter inviting labour representatives for tomorrow’s meeting at the Secretariat, the government detailed the expected labour representatives, though the organised labour, at a meeting on Tuesday, expressed reservations at the government’s classification of its representatives.

Noting that its key labour men are not well classified, the Organised Labour will today forward its letter to the government detailing the classification of its representatives to Thursday’s meeting.

As against the government’s proposal that the Nigeria Labour Council Chairman, Mr Martins Kayode, should come as a representative of the Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria, the Labour movement has demanded that the NLC Chairman should be part of the negotiation as NLC Chairman.

In the same vein, the labour movement is requesting that the Chairman of the Joint Negotiation Council, Seun Olanipekun, should be on the negotiation covering Council 1, 2 and 3 and not only Council 2 as proposed by the government.

Also, in the letter written to the government on Wednesday, the union asked that the Trade Union Council Chairman, Mr Bosun Olabiyi, be part of the negotiation as TUC Chairman and not another classification.