Minimum wage: IE warns of service disruptions amid Labour strike

Ikeja Electric (IE) Plc, a large energy organisation company, has informed its customers of work disruptions caused by the ongoing onslaught enactment by organised labour.

Organised labour declared a nationwide onslaught implicit a projected caller minimum wage aft a gathering betwixt the Tripartite of Labour, Organised Private Sector (OPS), and the Federal Government failed to scope an statement connected a caller minimum wage and the reversal of the caller hike successful energy tariffs.

The institution management, successful a connection connected Monday, announced that the onslaught has constricted entree to its telephone centre helplines.

It, however, urged customers to usage alternate virtual channels for assistance, noting that it regretted the inconvenience and hoped for a speedy solution of the issues.

IE connection read, “Dear Esteemed Customers,

“Please beryllium informed that the existent work disruption is arsenic a effect of the ongoing onslaught enactment by organised labour and arsenic such, determination volition beryllium constricted entree to our telephone centre helplines.”

The DisCo advised customers to usage alternate channels—customercare@ikejaelectric.com; Twitter: @ieserve; Facebook and Instagram: @ikejaelectric—when registering their complaints.

“We regret the inconvenience and anticipation for a speedy solution of the issues,” the steadfast added.

Meanwhile, the national authorities had appealed to organised labour to reconsider its planned indefinite onslaught acceptable to commence today, Monday, June 3.

While the unions are pushing for a caller minimum wage of N494,000, the Nigerian authorities is offering N60,000.

The FG, done the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, says the sum of N494,000 nationalist minimum wage being demanded by organised labour, which cumulatively amounts to the sum of N9.5 trillion, is susceptible of destabilising the system and jeopardising the payment of implicit 200 cardinal Nigerians.

In a last-minute effort to avert the strike, leaders of the National Assembly met with representatives of organised labour yesterday. However, the gathering ended successful a deadlock, with labour unions insisting connected going up with the strike.

Speaking aft the meeting, TUC President Comrade Festus Osifo said that the onslaught could not beryllium called disconnected without consulting national members.

He said, “It is hard and successful information intolerable for america arsenic labour leaders to telephone disconnected the onslaught here. We request to pass with our assorted organs, meaning that the concern enactment starts connected Monday arsenic planned.”