{"id":17511,"date":"2024-01-31T09:21:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T09:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=17511"},"modified":"2024-01-31T09:21:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T09:21:14","slug":"n200000-minimum-wage-no-longer-tenable-nlc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/31\/n200000-minimum-wage-no-longer-tenable-nlc\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0N200,000 Minimum Wage No Longer Tenable &#8211; NLC  \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #0f1419; background: white;\">The Nigerian Labour Congress said on Tuesday that the N200,000 minimum wage it earlier proposed to the Federal Government was no longer realistic, considering the country\u2019s current economic situation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #0f1419; background: white;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #0f1419; background: white;\">The congress, which spoke through its National Vice President, Tommy Etim, was reacting to Tuesday\u2019s inauguration of the Minimum Wage Committee by Vice President Kashim Shettima. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #0f1419; background: white;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #0f1419; background: white;\">He said, \u201cYou are aware that when we opted for the N200,000, the socio-economic challenges were not as biting as they are now. And when you now look at the exchange rate, it was not what it is now. The naira rate not been devalued as it is now. So, N200,000 is no longer tenable.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #0f1419; background: white;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #0f1419; background: white;\">\u201cWe are not going there with a fixed amount, but definitely not N200,000. By the time we get there, we will decide based on the socio-economic situation. That\u2019s what we are going to base our national minimum wage discussion and negotiation on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Labour Congress said on Tuesday that the N200,000 minimum wage it earlier proposed to the Federal Government was no longer realistic, considering the country\u2019s current economic situation. \u00a0 The congress, which spoke through its National Vice President, Tommy Etim, was reacting to Tuesday\u2019s inauguration of the Minimum Wage Committee by Vice President Kashim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":17513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-17511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-nlc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17562,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17511\/revisions\/17562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}