{"id":57328,"date":"2024-11-29T09:53:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T09:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=57328"},"modified":"2024-11-29T09:53:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T09:53:01","slug":"minimum-wage-labour-states-hold-crucial-talks-to-avert-monday-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/11\/29\/minimum-wage-labour-states-hold-crucial-talks-to-avert-monday-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum Wage: Labour, States Hold Crucial Talks to Avert Monday Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Faith Adama<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the December 1 deadline to implement the N70,000 minimum wage approaches, states yet to comply are in last-minute talks with labour unions to avoid a nationwide strike.<\/p>\n<p>Katsina, Cross River, and Zamfara are among the states still pending, following Imo State&#8217;s approval of the new wage on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, 33 states and the Federal Capital Territory have adopted the 2024 National Minimum Wage Act, with some offering amounts above the mandated N70,000, including Lagos and Rivers, which pay N85,000.<\/p>\n<p>Lagos plans to increase wages to N100,000 starting in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In Cross River, workers staged a two-day warning strike due to delays in implementing the wage, with labour leaders accusing the government of procrastination.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory Ulayi of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) warned of an indefinite strike if the government fails to act.<\/p>\n<p>Katsina is also under pressure, with a committee formed in October to strategize the wage implementation but no final decision yet.<\/p>\n<p>Labour unions in all three states are holding firm on their demand for full compliance with the wage law by\u00a0the\u00a0deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Faith Adama As the December 1 deadline to implement the N70,000 minimum wage approaches, states yet to comply are in last-minute talks with labour unions to avoid a nationwide strike. Katsina, Cross River, and Zamfara are among the states still pending, following Imo State&#8217;s approval of the new wage on Tuesday. Currently, 33 states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":57329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57328","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57330,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57328\/revisions\/57330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}