BREAKING: New minimum wage: Court orders NLC, TUC to stop planned strike
Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), not to
embark on its indefinite strike scheduled to commence on November 6.
The organised labour had threatened to commence an indefinite strike
action to press home their demands for the national minimum wage to be
increased from the current N18,000 to N30,000.
Justice Sanusi Kado, on Friday, gave the order in a ruling on an ex
parte application moved on behalf of the Federal Government by the
Solicitor-General of the Federation and Permanent Secretary, Federal
Ministry of Justice, Dayo Apata.
Justice Kado ruled that if the strike was allowed, it would lead to
huge economic loss to both public and private institutions and could
jeopardise the health of many Nigerians, who would not be able to
access health facilities during the period.
The last meeting of the tripartite negotiation committee on the
minimum wage had ended in deadlock after the Federal Government
insisted that it could only afford to pay N25,000.
Governors under the aegis of the Nigerian Governors' Forum (NGF) had
held on to N22,500 and the labour has insisted on N30,000.
Apart from the NLC and the TUC, the NGF is also joined as a defendant
in the suit.
Justice Kado adjourned the matter till November 8 for hearing of the motion.
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