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MINIMUM WAGE PANEL COLLATES ZONAL HEARING REPORTS
The Federal Government Minimum Wage Panel has begun the collation of various zonal public hearing reports, The PUNCH gathered.
The Director, Trade Union Services and Industrial Relations, Ministry of Labour and Productivity, Yusuf Kachalla, disclosed this to our correspondent on Wednesday.
The Federal Government in January announced its plans to implement a new minimum wage to reflect the current economic realities.
The current national minimum wage is N30,000, which the labour unions have argued is no longer realistic, given the galloping inflation in the country, which is now 29.9 per cent, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.