BY Victor Ahiuma-Young

ABUJA—Federal Government, Tuesday, in Abuja, said it would soon issue strict guidelines to regulate and curb prevailing issues of contract staffing and casualisation in the maritime industry.

Meanwhile, Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, has said welfare of workers remained its central objective.

Speaking at the commissioning of MWUN liaison building, Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, said though cases of casuali-sation were less reported in the sector, cases of contract staffing were prevalent.

He said the Federal Government would ensure that the issue of contract staffing was taken care of in the industry as his ministry had done in the oil and gas sector.

The minister said the government was doing the same in the banking sector and the communication sector, assuring that it would be extended to the maritime sector, which would now be the focus of his ministry.

Wogu said: “Casualisation in the oil and gas industry has been taken care of by my ministry and we are working on the banking and telecommunication sectors.”