Cross River state has approved N70,000 as the minimum wage for civil servants, effective from December 1.
Monday Ogbodum, chairman of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Cross River, confirmed the development.
Ogbodum said the trade unions will hold a congress on Monday to decide the next line of action.
The approval was given in addition to the consequential adjustment across all cadres of the state workforce.
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The signing of the agreement between the government and labour followed a series of meetings that started on Thursday.
“It is true that we have reached and signed an agreement on the implementation of the new minimum wage with the government. This also includes the consequential adjustment,” NAN quoted the TUC chairman to have said.
“This agreement was reached taking the peculiarity of the state into consideration.”
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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and TUC in Cross River had embarked on a warning strike on November 25 and 26.
The labour unions warned that the industrial action would be followed by a total strike if the government failed to do the needful before December 1.
On July 29, President Bola Tinubu signed the minimum wage bill into law. The law increased the workers’ take-home from N30,000 to N70,000.
On November 11, NLC announced November 30 as the deadline for all state governments to implement the new minimum wage.
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The congress ordered its members to embark on an indefinite strike in states where the new minimum wage is yet to be implemented.
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