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Workers' Day: Labour calls for upward review of salaries for workers


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The Organised Labour celebrated May Day at the popular Eagles Square, Abuja on Saturday with a demand for upward review of salary for workers.
Besides, the organised labour, under the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), demanded payment of gratuity to retiring officers to be restored in the public service.
The President of NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba and the TUC President, Comrade Quadri Olaleye, in their joint address, also called for upward review of the retirement age and years of service in the entire civil service.
They said: “We demand an upward review of salary of core Civil Servants to narrow the gap between their emoluments and those of employees in other segments of the public service. We implore the federal government to once more direct the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation to set up a committee to undertake this review that is certainly overdue. ....

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House Refuses Labour's Quest to Drop Minimum Wage Decentralisation Bill


By Adedayo Akinwale and Udora Orizu
The organised labour yesterday failed to persuade the House of Representatives to discontinue the consideration of a bill seeking to decentralise minimum wage negotiation.
The two parties, after a meeting in Abuja, failed to reach a consensus on the way forward on the bill which last week made the organised labour to march on the National Assembly and state legislatures to pressure lawmakers to kill the bill.
The bill, sponsored by Hon. Garba Muhammad, seeks to amend Item 34 of the Exclusive Legislative List, which places the subject of prescribing the national minimum wage within the exclusive legislative competence of the National Assembly by virtue of Section 4(2) and (3) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended). ....

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