The Organised Labour has agreed to attend the “negotiation” meeting of the Tripartite Committee on the Minimum Wage slated for Tuesday.

Vice President of the Trade Union Congress, Mr Etim Okon, confirmed this in an interview on Monday in Abuja.

Okon noted that the Federal Government has apologised, stressing that in the next meeting it would present its demand of  N615,000. 

Similarly, the Director-General of Nigeria Employers Consultative Association, Mr Adewale-Smatt Oyerinde, said that he hoped that the Tuesday meeting on the Tripartite Committee would be successful.

Oyerinde said that the federal government had prevailed over what happened at the last meeting as labour had walked out of the negotiation process.

The Nigeria Labour Congress and the TUC had walked out of the negotiation meeting as the Federal Government proposed N48,000 as a new minimum wage for workers in the country.