{"id":16263,"date":"2023-06-19T14:44:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T14:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=16263"},"modified":"2023-06-19T14:44:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T14:44:42","slug":"subsidy-removal-fg-labour-to-resume-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=16263","title":{"rendered":"Subsidy removal:\u00a0 FG, Labour to Resume Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\">Subsidy removal:\u00a0 FG, Labour to Resume Talk<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">Federal Government and labour are expected to harmonise some of the demands put forward by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) as they resume talk today.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">According to the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Kachallom Daju, the parties will reconvene at the presidential Villa, Abuja, by 4pm.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">When contacted yesterday, the permanent secretary said: \u201cYes, the meeting will hold on Monday (today) at the Presidential Villa by 4pm.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">On June 5, the organised Labour announced the suspension of its planned strike over the removal of subsidy on petroleum by the Federal Government.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The NLC served a strike notice, the day after President Bola Tinubu declared, in his inauguration address, that \u201cfuel subsidy is gone.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The president\u2019s speech triggered a knee-jerk reaction from petrol marketers, who immediately hiked petrol pump price at filling stations.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) subsequently released a price template for the pump price of petrol for its outlet stations.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">To avoid the strike, the government invited Labour leaders for dialogue on the way forward.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It will be recalled that in the course of negotiations, the Labour centre tendered its demands to cushion the effect in pump price increase.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">One of the demands was an increase in minimum wage for workers to N200, 000.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Both sides agreed to resume talks on the demands this week as the federal government team agreed to look into demands put forward by organised Labour.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subsidy removal:\u00a0 FG, Labour to Resume Talk Federal Government and labour are expected to harmonise some of the demands put forward by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) as they resume talk today. 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