{"id":813827,"date":"2024-12-22T00:25:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T06:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/22\/just-in-labour-cross-river-govt-reach-agreement-on-n70000-minimum-wage\/"},"modified":"2024-12-22T00:25:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T06:25:52","slug":"just-in-labour-cross-river-govt-reach-agreement-on-n70000-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/22\/just-in-labour-cross-river-govt-reach-agreement-on-n70000-minimum-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Labour, Cross River govt reach agreement on N70,000 minimum wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p> Featured <\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thenationonlineng.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/01221738\/IMG-20241201-WA0094-509x340.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thenationonlineng.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/01221738\/IMG-20241201-WA0094-220x147.jpg 220w, https:\/\/cdn.thenationonlineng.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/01221738\/IMG-20241201-WA0094-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cdn.thenationonlineng.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/01221738\/IMG-20241201-WA0094-509x340.jpg 509w, https:\/\/cdn.thenationonlineng.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/01221738\/IMG-20241201-WA0094.jpg 600w\" alt=\"IMG-20241201-WA0094\"  >            <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossriverstate.gov.ng\/\">Cross River State <\/a>Government has finalised an agreement with organized labor to implement a N70,000 national minimum wage, including consequential adjustments across all levels, effective December 1, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions between labor and the government continued late into Sunday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While full details of the meeting remain unclear, the Chief Press Secretary, Gill Nsa, confirmed the resolution.<\/p>\n<p>In a chat with The Nation, Clarkson Otu, a state representative on the minimum wage committee and Special Adviser to the Governor on Labour and Productivity, expressed optimism that the planned national strike would not take place in Cross River. <\/p>\n<h2>Read Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationonlineng.net\/the-case-for-investing-in-nigeria\/\">The case for investing in Nigeria<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Otu said: \u201cWe\u2019re done this evening. we\u2019re in the governor\u2019s office to sign the MOU. You would get a fuller brief when we\u2019re done signing the MOU. It is after we\u2019ve signed that the Labour will make their statement on the strike. It is not within my purview to say whether they\u2019ll strike or not.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve agreed there would be no need for the strike, but when we\u2019re done, labour would give their statement in that regard. Just give us more time to round up\u201d, the SA said.<\/p>\n<p>Several attempts to speak with labour leaders at the time of this report failed as they were yet to conclude the meeting and make a holistic statement on the memorandum of understanding ( MOU) signed.\n        <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenationonlineng.net\/just-in-labour-cross-river-govt-reach-agreement-on-n70000-minimum-wage\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured The Cross River State Government has finalised an agreement with organized labor to implement a N70,000 national minimum wage, including consequential adjustments across all levels, effective December 1, 2024. Discussions between labor and the government continued late into Sunday night.\u00a0 While full details of the meeting remain unclear, the Chief Press Secretary, Gill Nsa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":813828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23621,26816],"tags":[11074,43102],"class_list":["post-813827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cross","category-labour","tag-cross","tag-labour"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}