{"id":30248,"date":"2024-05-03T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigerian-workers-release-breakdown-of-proposed-n615000-minimum-wage\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T18:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T18:00:15","slug":"nigerian-workers-release-breakdown-of-proposed-n615000-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigerian-workers-release-breakdown-of-proposed-n615000-minimum-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian workers release breakdown of proposed N615,000 minimum wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Organized Labour, consisting of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, has outlined details of its proposed N615,000 minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>The details were contained in a statement released by the NLC on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, Food and Transportation took the larger proportion of the proposed minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>The breakdown showed that N270,000 (for thirty days) was benchmarked for Food and N110,000 for Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>Others are Electricity\/Power (N20,000), Accommodation (N40,000), Utility Water (N10,000), Kerosene\/Gas (N35,000), Clothing (N20,000), Education (N50,000), Sanitation (N10,000) and Medicals (50,000) resulting to a total sum of N615,000.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Festus Osifo, President of TUC and Joe Ajaero, the President of NLC, in separate statements, had revealed the N615,000 minimum wage proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in his May Day message to workers, President Bola Tinubu said an upward review of the minimum wage is imminent.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes as Nigerian workers grapple with high cost of living resulting from rising inflation, which stood at 33.20 per cent in March 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian workers release breakdown of proposed N615,000 minimum wage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organized Labour, consisting of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, has outlined details of its&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4161,4221,8005,15,761],"tags":[519,764,625,7425,180,762,7424],"class_list":["post-30248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-labour","category-minimum-wage","category-news","category-top-headlines","tag-business","tag-headlines","tag-labour","tag-minimum","tag-news","tag-top","tag-wage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}