Speaking, President of NLC Comrade Abdulwahed Omar, commended the textile union for its consistent struggle for the revival of textile industry, saying their efforts had yielded fruits with the reopening of United Nigeria Textile Plc, Kaduna and the relative stability in the sector.
Military Pensions Board, MPB, has said the late elder statesman, Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu alongside other pardoned soldiers that fought on the side of the defunct Biafra during the Nigeria Civil war, have been paid their pensions and arrears totaling N1.5billion by the Federal Government.
THE ancient of Benin City was thrown agog a week ago when the Edo State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, counterpart, held a solidarity rally, declaring support for the re election bid of Governor Adams Oshiomhole, immediate past President of NLC.
ON Tuesday, March, 2011, at the floor of the Senate Nigerians watched in total shock another assault against Nigerian workers and its peoples through the anti-workers’ Bill sponsored by Senator Heinekken Lokpobiri, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator from Bayelsa State seeking to make it unlawful for the trade unions in Nigeria to embark on any strike without obtaining thepermission of the different organs of the union through a ballot.
PARA-MILITARY pensioners are demanding for the sack and probe of the activities of Pension Reform Task Team led by Acting Director of the Customs, Immigrations and Prisons Pensions Office, CIPPO, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, accusing the team of compounding their pains and suffering.
ABUJA-The Federal Government has called on Pension Fund Administrators, PFAs, to fast-track the payment of benefits to the next of kin to deceased worker especially federal civil servant to alleviate the sufferings of the deceased family.
THE Five days public hearing held by the Senate joint Committee on Establishment, State and Local Government probing pension administration in country under chairmanship of Senator Aloysius Etok in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, did not only expose the rot in the administration of the defunct deferred Pension scheme, otherwise known as Pay-As-You-Go, it also opened a can of worms.
MINISTER of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, and Commandant of the National Defence College NDC, Rear Admiral Thomas Lokoson, have said unemployment is one of the single largest contributing factors to insecurity in the country and called for broad base policy initiatives including the input and participation of security agencies as a way out of youth restiveness arising from joblessness in the country.
THERE are indications that organized labour is planning a massive assault on five banks in the nation’s banking sector over alleged unfair labour practices including refused to allow workers join and unilateral retrenchment of workers without recourse to labour laws.
NATIONAL Pension Commission, PenCom, has commended the National Assembly, for its efforts at finding lasting solution to fraud, non-payment of pension, incessant verification exercise and other negative issues bedeviling the defunct pension scheme, otherwise known as Pay- As- You- Go, PAYG, saying they are damaging the contributory pension scheme.
NATIONAL Pension Commission, PenCom, it is working on a proposal for an amendment of the Pension Reform Act, PRA, 2004, to prosecute abuses by employers is underway.
RETIRED Prison officers from Edo State under the aegis of Association of Retired Prisons Officers have accused Pension Funds Administrators, PFAs, of unethical practices and sought to pull out Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS.
ORGANISED labour in the nation’s Steel and Engineering sector, has called on the Federal Government to intervene on the plight of over 500 workers of AKS Nigeria Limited allegedly forced out of job for the past three months by a Receiver/Manager purportedly acting under an Ex-Parte Court Order.
THOUGH the Employee Compensation Scheme, ECS, a child of the Employee Compensation Act, ECA, commenced July last year, however, February 24, 2012, at the official commissioning of the Lagos Corporate Head office of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, could be regarded as the actual take of date for the scheme.
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