THE NATION
Hope has risen for workers expecting a new minimum wage beginning this year.
This follows the constitution of the 37-member Tripartite Committee to negotiate and agree on the new minimum wage.
The current minimum wage of N30,000 went into effect five years ago.
The panel members will be inaugurated tomorrow at Aso Villa, according to a government statement.
To chair the panel is the former Head of Service of the Federation (HoCSF) Alhaji Bukar Goni Aji.
Others on the panel are drawn from the Federal Government, the state governments, the labour unions and the private sector.
A statement by Segun Imohioson, from the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, gave the names of panel members as: “From the Federal Government, the members include, Minister of Labour & Employment (State), Mrs. Nkeiruka Onyejeocha; Minister of Finance & Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun; Minister of Budget & Economic Planning, Alhaji Atiku Bagudu; HoCSF Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan; the Permanent Secretary GSO OSGF, Dr. Nnamdi Maurice Mbaeri and National Salaries, Income Wages and Commission (NSIWC) Chairman/CEO, Ekpo Nta”
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