Samuel Adesola, Abuja
Imo State Governor Hope Uzodima says the Tripartite Committee on the minimum wage is close to a consensus.
He said the committee would soon agree on a new national minimum wage.
The Imo Governor who spoke on Friday after the committee’s meeting, said, “We had a very fruitful deliberation and of course you know it is a technical subcommittee of a committee.
“And at the level of the committee, we have reached near consensus and by the time we go to the plenary, we will have a complete agreement and maybe from there, the media can start their job. As it is now, I think we are better off than we were.”
Uzodinma added that the committee just finished with their various unit meetings and has now proceeded to the plenary, where they’re expected to harmonise their decisions and hopefully come up with a figure.
Organised labour had demanded N494,000 while the government proposed N60,000 as the new minimum wage.
Following government’s refusal to meet its demands, labour declared a strike on Monday and suspended it on Tuesday.
Amid the continued negotiations, indications have emerged that the new minimum wage might be fixed between N60,000 and N100,000.
