{"id":58492,"date":"2024-12-26T17:07:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T17:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58492"},"modified":"2024-12-26T17:07:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T17:07:35","slug":"oyo-sets-%e2%82%a680000-minimum-wage-leads-in-workers-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/26\/oyo-sets-%e2%82%a680000-minimum-wage-leads-in-workers-welfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Oyo Sets \u20a680,000 Minimum Wage, Leads in Workers&#8217; Welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jesusemen Oratokhai<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has approved an 86% salary increase for state workers, raising the minimum wage to \u20a680,000 and the monthly wage bill to \u20a611.9 billion, effective January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade, following a meeting with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Chairman, Comrade Kayode Martins.<\/p>\n<p>Martins praised Governor Makinde as a &#8220;Workers\u2019 Governor&#8221; for his commitment to labor welfare, noting that Oyo\u2019s new minimum wage surpasses federal and state benchmarks, reinforcing its leadership in worker-friendly policies.<\/p>\n<p>Oyelade emphasized the governor\u2019s dedication to balancing workers\u2019 welfare with economic priorities, while Martins highlighted Oyo\u2019s proactive approach, being the first state to implement the previous \u20a630,000 minimum wage and negotiate the new rate ahead of federal approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jesusemen Oratokhai Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has approved an 86% salary increase for state workers, raising the minimum wage to \u20a680,000 and the monthly wage bill to \u20a611.9 billion, effective January 2025. The announcement was made by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade, following a meeting with the Nigeria Labour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58492","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58494,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58492\/revisions\/58494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}