AS part of efforts to deepen the implementation of Employee’s Compensation Act, ECA, and raise greater awareness on its benefits, Nigeria Social Insurance Fund, NSITF, and Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, have stressed the need for employers to adhere strictly to mutually agreed definition of payroll in remitting the one percent ECA deduction.

For me and for labour movement, it is one opportunity that we must continue to celebrate how FES has supported the working class and also provided funds to educate our rank and file.

MINISTER of Labour and Employment Senator Chris Nwabueze Ngige, has assured Nigerians of the commitment of President Muhammadu Buhari to continue to protect workers at workplaces.

We are now paying up to N1.3 million monthly to the beneficiaries. That represents 90 per cent of the last income of the deceased breadwinner

By Victor Ahiuma-Young ONE of the leading labour administrators in Nigeria and a former arbitrator of the Industrial Arbitration Panel, IAP, Elder Linus Ukamba, has decried low utilisation of IAP by workers in the settlement of industrial disputes. Ukamba recently retired from Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, few months after completing his assignments at IAP where […]

A Political economist and Nigerian trade unionist, Issa Aremu, has been elected Vice President, IndustriALL Global Union.Aremu was unanimously elected VP of the 50 million members IndustriALL Global Union at its 2nd World Congress of the union, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The only way to get out of recession is for us to improve on the minimum wage for workers

STAKEHOLDERS in the nation’s Pension Industry, have reiterated earlier calls on Nigerians, especially contributors to the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, to be wary of faceless groups working for and with vested interest bent on destroying the gains of the scheme and its regulator; National Pension Commission, PenCom.

NATIONAL Pension Commission, PenCom, has called for the development of a robust pension and social security system to cater for old age to address the fallout of aging population that will emerge from the projected population explosion in Africa in the nearest future.

ONE of the challenges facing Nigeria as a nation is that she is a country of laws but not under the law. We have very laudable policies and laws, without the political will to implement the policies and enforce the laws. A media report has revealed that the Federal Government has not been remitting the […]

INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation, ILO, has raised alarm over rising global youth unemployment as well as poverty rate among working youth, lamenting that incidence of unemployment among youth in Northern Africa remains elevated at 29.3 per cent in 2016, representing the second highest rate across all regions.

RECENTLY, Trusftfund Pensions TFP, Plc, held its annual employers’ forum across the country to keep employers who are their customers abreast with the developments in the pensions industry and get feedbacks from them among others.

IN line with global trends in the pursuit of sustainable preventive Occupational Safety and Health culture, the Federal Government through the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has inaugurated the National Tripartite Technical Committee on the Development of the first National Occupational Safety and Health profile in Nigeria.

Unions affiliated to IndustriALL Global Union, in Nigeria are seeking engagement with Dangote Group over the unionsiation of its member companies in Nigeria. They however, commended the President of the group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, for his drive towards industrialisation of African continent.

The question we should be asking ourselves is, why are we not getting it right? We are not getting results because we are not doing the right things. Let me repeat myself again, we are looking for a microwave solution to a problem that requires a far more robust and fundamental approach. The first thing we must realise as a country is that employment comes from meaningful inclusive and consistent growth. Now when you look at the state of our economy particularly, in the last three to four years, we have not really posted meaningful growth. Even in time past, when Nigeria was posting an average of 6 percent and 7.5 percent Gross Domestic Product, GDP growth rate, it did not result into meaningful employment. That was why I said earlier that what we require is sustainable and inclusive growth.