N70,000 transport allowance: 'We still want N500,000 minimum wage' - Labour insists

The National Secretary of the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council, JNPSNC, Comrade Gbenga Olowoyo has reaffirmed organised labour’s request for a N500,000 minimum wage, saying the magnitude reflects the fiscal load connected Nigerian workers amid the rising outgo of living.

Olowoyo said labour remained committed to the projected wage but was unfastened to tenable negotiations with the Federal Government to scope an statement that would amended workers’ welfare.

He spoke during an interrogation connected Arise News connected Tuesday, pursuing a gathering betwixt organised labour and the Federal Government that lasted much than six hours to sermon workers’ payment and measures to cushion the interaction of rising petrol prices.

The labour person besides welcomed the Federal Government’s statement to supply workers with N70,000 transport enactment monthly for six months, opening successful November, describing the involution arsenic a affirmative result of negotiations.

According to him, the statement demonstrated the government’s willingness to code workers’ concerns, adding that labour expected the authorities to honour its committedness and instrumentality the involution arsenic agreed.

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