The Organised Labour has made a fresh proposal of N497,000 to the Federal Government as minimum wage.
The Federal Government and the Organised Private Sector have also jointly proposed the sum of N57,000 as minimum wage.
A highly Informed source at the just-concluded tripartite committee meeting on minimum wage made this known in an interview with The PUNCH correspondent.
The source said, “Labour has now made a fresh proposal of N497,000; the Federal Government and OPS have jointly proposed N57,000.”
The panel, whose membership includes federal and state governments, the private sector, and organised labour, will recommend a new national minimum wage for the country.
During the panel’s inauguration, Shettima urged the members to “speedily” reach a resolution and submit their reports early.
“This timely submission is crucial to ensure the emergence of a new minimum wage,” Shettima said.
In furtherance of its assignment, a zonal public hearing was held simultaneously on March 7 in Lagos, Kano, Enugu, Akwa Ibom, Adamawa, and Abuja.
The NLC and the TUC in different states proposed various figures as a living wage, referencing the current economic crunch and the high costs of living.
In their different proposals on the minimum wage, the NLC members in the South-West states demanded N794,000 as the TUC suggested N447,000.
At the North-Central zonal hearing in Abuja, the workers demanded N709,000 as the new national minimum wage, while their counterparts in the South-South clamoured for N850,000.
In the North-West, N485,000 was proposed, while the South-East stakeholders demanded N540,000 minimum wage.
