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	<title>Vanguard News &#187; Labour</title>
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		<title>Why we employ casual workers &#8211; Mokikan</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/02/why-we-employ-casual-workers-mokikan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mbgolu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is allegation that 7 UP Bottling company has been engaging in unfair labour practices  especially employing casual workers. How would you respond to the allegation?]]></description>
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		<title>Lagos prepares prospective retirees for retirement life</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/02/lagos-prepares-prospective-retirees-for-retirement-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mbgolu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECENTLY, Lagos State Pension Commission, LASPEC, organised a seminar in conjunction with stakeholders in the Contributory Pension and Insurance sectors to sensitize workers who are retiring between January and June, 2012 from the core Civil Service, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Parastatals and Local Government Service.]]></description>
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		<title>Non-remittance of deducted funds, threat to contributory pension, says Takor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mbgolu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FORMER board member of National Pension Commission, PenCom, representing organized Labour, Comrade Ivor Takor, has said the failure by employers to remit the pension contributions of workers to the Pension Fund Administrators, PFAs is a big challenge facing the reform, which may affect retirees of non compliant organizations in future. ]]></description>
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		<title>Public sector unions petition govs, asworkers lament high cost of living</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/02/public-sector-unions-petition-govs-asworkers-lament-high-cost-of-living/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/02/public-sector-unions-petition-govs-asworkers-lament-high-cost-of-living/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ojiego</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SINCE the January 1, 2012, hike in pump price of petrol to N141 from the N65 per liter, workers in the country have been finding it difficult to cope with the socio-economic consequences. Even after the price was slashed to N97, the  high cost of living occasioned by the January 1, hike, has remained astronomical and  it has become increasingly hard for workers to grapple with the cost of living.   ]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing deceased funds, bane of Contributory Pension &#8211; Mokikan</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/02/accessing-deceased-funds-bane-of-contributory-pension-mokikan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/02/accessing-deceased-funds-bane-of-contributory-pension-mokikan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ojiego</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CLOSE to Nine years into the operations of Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, following the Pension Reform Act, PRA,2004, contributors and their beneficiaries are now contending with unforeseen challenges that have made stakeholders to step up push for review of the Act. In an interview, Executive Director, Human Resources, 7UP Bottling Company, Mr. Femi Mokikan, said one of the greatest challenges facing the CPS is the difficulties faced by next of kin to a deceased contributor. Excerpts: ]]></description>
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		<title>Pension Reforms Task Team uncovers 71,133 ghost pensioners</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/pension-reforms-task-team-uncovers-71133-ghost-pensioners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mbgolu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE Pension Reform Task Team set up by the Federal government, has uncovered no fewer than 71, 133 ghost pensioners under the government payroll across the country.]]></description>
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		<title>Retirees accuse Plateau  Govt of insensitivity</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/retirees-accuse-plateau-govt-of-insensitivity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/retirees-accuse-plateau-govt-of-insensitivity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mbgolu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RETIREES in Plateau State have accused the State Government of  being insensitive to their plight, and decried the neglect they are suffering after “working hard for the state”.]]></description>
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		<title>42 on trial over pension fraud &#8211; EFCC</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/42-on-trial-over-pension-fraud-efcc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/42-on-trial-over-pension-fraud-efcc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mbgolu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ECONOMIC and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is currently prosecuting no fewer than 42 persons over pension scam across the country, even as the commission said many more persons would be made to face the music for fraudulently denying pensioners their legitimate benefits.]]></description>
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		<title>Industrial unrest looms in power sector</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/industrial-unrest-looms-in-power-sector-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/industrial-unrest-looms-in-power-sector-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mbgolu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[IN 2003, the then President Olusegun Obasanjo began the process of liquidating the Nigeria Airway and by 2004, when the process was concluded; it left behind tales of woes. In fact, at the peak of the crisis, some of the workers who were leaving in Nigeria Airways Staff quarters, were forcefully evicted with armed Mobile Policemen and their property thrown out to the mercy of the rain and hoodlums. ]]></description>
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		<title>Fuel Subsidy: Informal sector workers demand social protection</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/fuel-subsidy-informal-sector-workers-demand-social-protection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/fuel-subsidy-informal-sector-workers-demand-social-protection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nnamdiojiego</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[INFORMAL sector workers in the country have raised alarm over removal of subsidy on petroleum product, saying it will worsen their burden and hardships.]]></description>
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		<title>Our strategies for sustainable pension industry &#8211; PenCom</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/our-strategies-for-sustainable-pension-industry-pencom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/our-strategies-for-sustainable-pension-industry-pencom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nnamdiojiego</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NATIONAL Pension Commission, PenCom, has unfolded the commission's plans for sustainable pension industry in the country.]]></description>
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		<title>Strike: The return of black market injunction</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/strike-the-return-of-black-market-injunction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/strike-the-return-of-black-market-injunction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nnamdiojiego</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ON September 21, 2004, the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Abuja was alleged to have been flown to Abuja to give a restraining order to Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, from embarking on strike to protest the hike in the pump prices of Petroleum products by then President Olusegun Obasanjo’s government.]]></description>
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		<title>Subsidy: Why we support indefinite strike &#8211; Labour allies</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/subsidy-why-we-support-indefinite-strike-labour-allies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/subsidy-why-we-support-indefinite-strike-labour-allies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlesmgb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JANUARY 1, 2012 removal of subsidy on Petrol and subsequent hike in the pump price of the product, came unexpectedly and on a day when Nigerian workers like most of their counterpart world over were celebrating the new year. ]]></description>
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		<title>Labour calls for collaboration in power reforms</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/labour-calls-for-collaboration-in-power-reforms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/labour-calls-for-collaboration-in-power-reforms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nnamdiojiego</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Electricity workers have suggested that instead of the outright sale of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, government should consider the adoption of public private partnership model that will guaranty the reform of the sector.]]></description>
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		<title>N7bn not yet credited to PFAs &#8211; PenOp</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/n7bn-not-yet-credited-to-pfas-penop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/n7bn-not-yet-credited-to-pfas-penop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nnamdiojiego</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UMBRELLA body for operators in the nation’s pension industry, Pension Operators of Nigeria, PenOp, has revealed that a whooping N7billion pension fund contributed by workers have not been remitted to workers’ Pension Fund Administrators, PFAs, by their employers.]]></description>
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