Minimum wage: Oyo govt, Labour to begin adjustment negotiations

Representatives of the Oyo State Government and the Organised Labour will, on Thursday commenced the negotiations on consequential adjustment for a new minimum wage in the state.

Recall that Governor Seyi Makinde had recently declared that his administration would commence the payment of N70,000 minimum wage once the issue of consequential salary adjustment has been addressed.

Makinde then announced the extension of the N25,000 wage award to workers and the N15,000 to pensioners for another three months.

The negotiations slated for Thursday would enable the government to presenting its proposed table adjustment for each grade level.

However, the labour representatives will be looking at the Federal Government’s consequential adjustment template as a desired template.

In the letter inviting labour representatives for tomorrow’s meeting at the Secretariat, the government detailed the expected labour representatives for the meeting.

The labour in turn forwarded its letter to the government detailing the classification of its representatives to Thursday’s meeting.

As against the government’s proposal that the Nigeria Labour Council  Chairman, Mr Martins Kayode, should come as a representative of the  Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria, the Labour movement has demanded that the NLC Chairman should be part of the negotiation as NLC Chairman.

In the same vein, the labour movement is requesting that the Chairman of the Joint Negotiation Council, Seun Olanipekun, should be on the negotiation covering Council 1, 2 and 3 and not only Council 2 as proposed by the government.

Also, in the letter written to the government on Wednesday, the union asked that the Trade Union Council Chairman, Mr Bosun Olabiyi, be part of the negotiation as TUC Chairman and not another classification.