After a day of nationwide protests, the leadership of the National Assembly will next week meet labour leaders over a bill which seeks to remove the minimum wage negotiations from the exclusive legislative list.
The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, ALHASSAN ADO-DOGUWA, disclosed this while addressing workers, who marched to the National Assembly Complex in Abuja to protest the bill.
But the sponsor of the bill, Hon DATTI MUHAMMAD, in an interview took a swipe at the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, saying they should be civil in their opposition to the bill and stop attacking him.
Recall that the bill seeking to remove negotiations on the minimum wage from the exclusive list to the concurrent list passed the second reading in the House on February 23.
At plenary, MOHAMMED, while defending the bill, stated that it would allow both the federal and state governments to freely negotiate minimum wage with their workers in line with principles of federalism.
But workers across the federation yesterday staged protests to register their opposition to the bill.
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