A white State House-registered Coaster bus conveying the NLC President, Joe Ajaero, and the TUC President, Festus Osifo, and other leaders arrived at the forecourt of the Villa at about 2.14pm.
On the President’s programme for the day, the 30-minute meeting was scheduled for 2pm but was delayed as the visitors were still undergoing Covid-19 tests and security checks.
Thursday’s meeting comes exactly one week after parties resolved to continue consultation over the proposals for the new national minimum wage.
President Bola Tinubu has assured stakeholders that he is not opposed to a new wage but that parties must find a common figure that can be borne by the Federal and Sub-national Governments.
The Tripartite Committee on the new national minimum wage recently submitted figures to the President as the organised private sector and the government team had offered to pay N62,000.
But the organised labour insisted on N250,000.
Following the disagreement, the President had delayed sending any figure to the National Assembly through an Executive Bill.
At Monday’s Federal Executive Council meeting, Tinubu had asked the Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Abubakar Bagudu, to draft a bill to amend the 2024 budget to accommodate a new minimum wage.
