The General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Dr Peter Ozo-Eson, said that the Federal Government and labour representatives on the technical committee set up to negotiate consequential increase arising from the new minimum wage would resume negotiation this week.After negotiation broke down between the government and labour on what workers at various grade levels would get as salary increase, the NLC, Trade Union Congress and the Joint National Public Service Negotiation Council wrote separate letters to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF Boss Mustapha, complaining of introduction of new terms of reference by the Federal Government team that were not in the document presented by the SGF when he inaugurated the negotiating committee on May 14, 2019. On Wednesday, the SGF and representatives of JNPSNC met in Abuja where issues that led to the breakdown of negotiation were discussed.While the Federal Government representatives in the technical committee had proposed nine point five per cent salary increase for workers on Grade Levels seven to fourteen and five per cent increase for employees on Grade Levels fifteen to seventeen, labour representatives were demanding thirty per cent salary increase for workers on Grade Levels seven to fourteen and twenty-five per cent for workers on Grade Levels fifteen to seventeen. Comrade Ozo-Eson said, TUC will not support lowering labour demands on the issue of the new minimum wage.
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