The Tripartite Committee on Minimum Wage has postponed its meeting “sine die,” sources familiar with the matter told Punch in Abuja on Tuesday.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, sine die means a situation, “without any future date being designated (as for resumption): indefinitely.”
The Federal Government on Tuesday added a sum of N3,000 to its initially proposed N57,000 minimum wage, making it the sum of N60,000 proposed on Tuesday during the meeting of the tripartite committee on minimum wage in Abuja.
Organized labor, comprising the Trade Union Congress and the Nigeria Labour Congress, also went down by N3,000 from its last proposal of N497,000 during the last minimum wage meeting.
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Speaking with Punch, one of the sources, who is a leader of the NLC, said, “The meeting ended in a stalemate, and meetings have been adjourned sine die.
“The government proposed N60,000, which was not accepted by Labour.”
A member of the Labour side also told the medium before the meeting started that the organized Labour would only go lower if the government went higher on its demands.
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“This is simply a case of if they go higher, we will go lower. They need to propose something reasonable for us to propose something lower too. There is no two-way about it.
“Also, we have a way of meeting ourselves as members of the Labour Party before each committee meeting. This will help us to take a uniform stand by the time we get to the meeting front.
“So as long as the government is ready to present something reasonable, we will meet them in the middle,” the Labour leader said.
It could be recalled that Labour had earlier proposed a May 31, 2024, deadline for the announcement of the new minimum wage.