{"id":13267,"date":"2018-11-06T07:30:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T07:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13267"},"modified":"2018-11-06T07:30:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T07:30:58","slug":"labour-suspends-strike-action-buhari-gets-report-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13267","title":{"rendered":"Labour suspends strike action; Buhari gets report Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The planned nationwide strike by the labour unions over a new minimum wage has been shelved for now. The strike was scheduled to start on Tuesday.<br \/>\nLabour leaders, government representatives and organised private sector spent many hours on Monday to reach a consensus on a minimum wage.<br \/>\nBut it was in vain as the Tripartite committee decided to convey the resolution of the meeting to President Muhammadu Buhari, for onward transmission to the National Assembly.<br \/>\nThe report will be\u00a0 submitted to\u00a0 President Buhari on Tuesday\u00a0 by 4:15 pm.<br \/>\nGovernment wants to pay N24,000 as minimum wage, but the labour leaders are insisting on N30,000.<br \/>\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari on Monday\u00a0intervened in the impasse\u00a0 by appealing\u00a0 to the labour unions, especially the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to consider\u00a0 the rot\u00a0 his administration inherited from the previous governments.<br \/>\nThe President explained that the present government was doing more with the \u2018fewer resources\u2019 at its disposal in putting the nation\u2019s economy right.<br \/>\nBy <strong>NAN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The planned nationwide strike by the labour unions over a new minimum wage has been shelved for now. The strike was scheduled to start on Tuesday. Labour leaders, government representatives and organised private sector spent many hours on Monday to reach a consensus on a minimum wage. But it was in vain as the Tripartite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}