{"id":461427,"date":"2011-07-15T08:42:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T08:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/15\/labour-accuses-govt-of-playing-politics-with-minimum-wage\/"},"modified":"2011-07-15T08:42:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T08:42:09","slug":"labour-accuses-govt-of-playing-politics-with-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/15\/labour-accuses-govt-of-playing-politics-with-minimum-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Accuses Govt of Playing Politics With Minimum Wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"16.53589643\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/vanguard180.jpg\" alt=\"Vanguard (Lagos)\" title=\"Visit Vanguard (Lagos)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Suzan Edeh<\/p>\n<p>15 July 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Bauchi \u2014 The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has accused the federal, states and local governments of allegedly playing politics with the new salary scale for civil servants in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The congress however warned that hat it was too late in the day for any of the three tiers of government to renege on the implementation of the N18,000 new minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>Bauchi State chapter of the NLC which gave the warning in an interview with Vanguard said that the governors of the 36 states were particularly dishonest to their workers over the issue as they had agreed to implement the law on the new wages before the general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The NLC gave the three tiers of government an ultimatum within which to comply with the new wages or face nation-wide strike.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201107150214.html\" title=\"Labour Accuses Govt of Playing Politics With Minimum Wage\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Labour Accuses Govt of Playing Politics With Minimum Wage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Suzan Edeh 15 July 2011 Bauchi \u2014 The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has accused the federal, states and local governments of allegedly playing politics with the new salary scale for civil servants in the country. The congress however warned that hat it was too late in the day for any of the three tiers of government to renege on the implementation of the N18,000 new minimum wage. Bauchi State chapter of the NLC which gave the warning in an interview with Vanguard said that the governors of the 36 states were particularly dishonest to their workers over the issue as they had agreed to implement the law on the new wages before the general elections. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Labour Accuses Govt of Playing Politics With Minimum Wage - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/15\/labour-accuses-govt-of-playing-politics-with-minimum-wage\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Labour Accuses Govt of Playing Politics With Minimum Wage - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Suzan Edeh 15 July 2011 Bauchi \u2014 The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has accused the federal, states and local governments of allegedly playing politics with the new salary scale for civil servants in the country. 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