By Victor Ahiuma-Young

AKURE — LEADERS of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, have given the Federal Government a two-month time frame to legalise the new minimum wage, failing which it would not guarantee industrial peace across the country.

At the end of its National Executive Council, NEC, meeting in Akure, Ondo State, the  NLC called on the Federal Government

to fast track the submission and passage of an amendment to the 2000 National Minimum Wage Act to give effect to the

consensus reached by the tripartite minimum wage negotiating committee.

The NLC said it had become imperative in the face of current biting economic situation which had made nonsense of the

existing wages of workers, adding that Nigerian workers should be paid the new national minimum wage without further delay.

According to the statement by Comrades Abdulwaheed Omar and John Odah, NLC’s President and General Secretary respectively,

“NEC took note of the demand by congress for a new national minimum wage, and reviewed the recommendations of the

tripartite committee on minimum wage made up of representatives of the Federal and State governments, Nigeria Employers

Consultative Association, NECA, and Labour and chaired by retired Justice Alfa Belgore.”