{"id":2627,"date":"2022-03-03T16:42:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T16:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2022-03-03T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T16:50:00","slug":"kogi-teachers-reject-govt-proposal-to-pay-25-of-old-or-17-of-new-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/kogi-teachers-reject-govt-proposal-to-pay-25-of-old-or-17-of-new-minimum-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"Kogi Teachers Reject Govt Proposal to Pay 25% Of Old Or 17% Of New Minimum Wage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Kogi state wing, have rejected the proposed percentage salaries by the state government.<\/span><\/p>\n This was part of the outcome of the emergency State Wing Executive Council (SWEC) meeting on Thursday, March 3, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n A union official who pleaded anonymity told our correspondent that the state government proposed to pay Primary School Teachers 25% of the 18000 minimum wage or 17% of 30000 minimum wage.<\/span><\/p>\n He confirmed that the union leaders rejected the proposal by Kogi state government in totality.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe absolutely rejected in totality such percentage payment of either 17% or 25%. May God help us. We need prayers at this crucial moment of our lives,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n The State Governor, Yahaya Bello, approved the immediate implementation of the N30,000 new minimum wage two weeks ago.<\/span><\/p>\n The approval led to the suspension of planned industrial action by the organized labour in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Kogi state wing, have rejected the proposed percentage salaries by the state…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,284],"class_list":{"0":"post-2627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-kogi","8":"tag-teachers"},"yoast_head":"\n