The Tripartite Committee on Minimum Wage has indefinitely postponed its meeting, sources familiar with the matter told our correspondent in Abuja on Tuesday.
According to Merriam-Webster, “sine die” means “without any future date being designated (as for resumption): indefinitely.” Legal Choices, a law website, also describes “sine die” as a Latin term used when a legal case has no fixed date for resumption.
On Tuesday, the Federal Government increased its proposed minimum wage by N3,000, raising it from the initial N57,000 to N60,000 during the Tripartite Committee’s meeting in Abuja.
Organized Labour, including the Trade Union Congress and the Nigeria Labour Congress, reduced their proposal by N3,000, bringing it down from N497,000 as suggested in the last minimum wage meeting.
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Speaking with a Punch correspondent, 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 Labour representative who spoke with our correspondent before the meeting stated that organized Labour would only make concessions if the government increased its demands.
“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 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.
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