{"id":124750,"date":"2024-07-18T20:39:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T19:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/we-need-support-to-pay-n70000-minimum-wage-organised-private-sector"},"modified":"2024-07-18T21:49:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T20:49:37","slug":"we-need-support-to-pay-n70000-minimum-wage-organised-private-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/we-need-support-to-pay-n70000-minimum-wage-organised-private-sector","title":{"rendered":"We need support to pay N70,000 minimum wage \u2013 Organised private sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Organised Private Sector, OPS, has reacted to the new N70,000 minimum wage adopted by the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu on Thursday approved N70,000 minimum wage for Nigerian workers, with a promise to review the national minimum wage law every three years.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, the spokesperson of OPS, and Director General of the Nigeria Employers\u2019 Consultative Association, NECA, Adewale-Smatt Oyerinde, warned that members cannot pay the N70,000 national minimum wage announced by the Federal Government without support.<\/p>\n<p>He was quoted as saying: \u201cWhile we commend the President for putting to rest the immediate issue of the National Minimum Wage, we also note, most importantly, his commitment to support the sub-nationals and the organised private sector to pay the new wage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Organised Private Sector, OPS, has reacted to the new N70,000 minimum wage adopted by the Federal Government. President Bola Tinubu on Thursday approved N70,000 minimum wage for Nigerian workers, with a promise to review the national minimum wage law every three years. Reacting, the spokesperson of OPS, and Director General of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":124749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[249,254,14145,14146],"class_list":["post-124750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-minimum-wage","tag-nigeria","tag-ops","tag-organised-private-sector"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>We need support to pay N70,000 minimum wage \u2013 Organised private sector - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Organised Private Sector, OPS, has reacted to the new N70,000 minimum wage adopted by the Federal Government. 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