By Busari Kabirat
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), has requested having a fresh meeting with the Federal Government on Monday, but put a clause that the Minister of Labour and Employment should not be part of the meeting.
The NLC is set to meet with the federal government based on the Naira depreciation which is affecting all business sectors and working categories in the country which needed an urgent attention by the government and to also review the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed on palliatives of subsidy removal.
Joe Ajaero, NLC President, who on Sunday in a released statement, blamed the federal government for the currency deprecation.
Statement reads, “Urgent action to stabilise the naira amidst alarming depreciation,” the NLC president said the repercussions of the weakened currency would be felt by workers and the masses.
He said, “Hopefully, we may meet tomorrow (today) with the federal government to see whether the agreement with organised labour on the fuel subsidy removal palliatives was met or not.
“If that meeting is to be held, it will be without the Minister of Labour and Employment (Simon Lalong) because we will not be part of any meeting with the federal government that the minister of labour and employment will attend.
“You will recall that the decision we had on the National Union of Road Transport Workers was that all parties, including the police should leave the premises, pending the resolution of the dispute but that did not happen. Therefore, any meeting we will have with the federal government, the minister of labour and employment will not be part of it.”
