In a circular sent to state councils, signed by its General Secretary, Mr Emmanuel Ugboaja, NLC, to mobilise for strike, the union said that the document was a notice in case the proposed negotiations slated for October 15 with the Federal Government broke down.

“You will recall that a joint Communiqué was issued by the NLC, Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Committee, JNPSNC, stating that two weeks from the date of the said communiqué, industrial harmony could not be guaranteed in the country should an agreement not be reached with the Federal Government on the Consequential Adjustment of Salaries as a result of the New National Minimum Wage of N30,000.

“You are hereby directed to coordinate preparations with TUC and JNPSNC in your states for necessary industrial action should the time expire without an agreement as contained in the circular.’’

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the organised labour demanded 29 per cent salary increase for officers on salary level 07 to 14 and 24 per cent adjustment for officers on salary grade level 15 to 17.

The Federal Government had, however, presented a proposal of 11 per cent salary increase for officers on grade level 07 to14 and 6.5 per cent adjustment for workers of grade level 15 to 17.

Implementation of the new wage has remained a problem, arising from the issue of relativity and consequential adjustments.

On May 14, the Federal Government inaugurated the relativity and consequential adjustment committee, which in turn set up a technical sub-committee to work out a template for the adjustment of salaries of public service employees.

However, government and labour have failed to reach an agreement over relativity and consequential adjustments for the implementation of the new minimum wage more than six months after it was signed into law.

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The bill was passed at the plenary on Tuesday after the legislators considered the report of the ad-hoc committee set up to work on it.

The bill was passed to the National Assembly for approval by President Muhammadu Buhari after the Council of State meeting, last week, approved the increase of the wage to N27,000.

However, the legislators left the bill at N30,000 as recommended by the tripartite committee set up by the Federal Government on the new minimum wage.

The bill has passed the Second Reading at the Senate.

It would be recalled that the new national minimum wage has been a source of controversy.

While the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, has insisted that the N30,000 recommended by the tripartite committee set up on the minimum wage should be approved, governors of the states of the federation have declared that they did not have the means to pay it.

Even when the Council of State gave approval to N27,000 as forwarded to the National Assembly, Nigerian workers threatened to contest it.

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