The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Thursday said the government has been delaying and evading minimum wages talks.

President of the NLC, Ayuba Abba said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, that the talks had not even started.

“Uptil now, government is still dragging its feet on talks about the minimum wage; the tripartite structure has not been put in place,” he said.

“The point we are making is that we have only agreed on the structure, but the structure has not been formed.

“We have agreed on the membership and the structure of the negotiating team which is going to be tripartite, so this is the point that we are now.

“But at the last meeting of the tripartite team which was held a day after the Sallah break, it was agreed that at the next meeting, all these issues will be sorted out.

“What happened was that government could not form a quorum at the last meeting of the palliative,” Mr. Wabba added.

He further said key ministers were absent from the meeting, apart from the Minister of Labour and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

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