HE argued that even the Pension Reform Task Team, PRTT, set up to bring some sanity to the system, worsened the plight of the pensioners. Ndoma-Egba added that the thrust of the bill was to overhaul the entire structure and the scheme of pension administration in the country including, “the establishment of a uniform set of rules, regulations and standards for the administration and payment of retirement benefits for the public service in all tiers of government and the private sectors, thus, making provisions for the smooth operations of the contributory pension scheme and ensuring that every worker receives his retirement benefits as and when due.”

IF the amendment to the Pension Reform Act, PRA, 2004, by the Senate sails through, total contributions by both employers and employees to the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS will be increased to 20 percent as against 15 percent currently being contributed.

RECENTLY, IndustriAll Global Union affiliates in Nigeria gathered at the National Secretariat of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, Lagos, at a one day workshop to mark the World Day for Safety and Health.

In the trade union movement, Peters Adeyemi is a name that rings a bell. Officially, he is the General Secretary of the Non- Academic Staff Union of Educational And Associated Institutions, NASU, and until 20011, a Deputy President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC . He served in that capacity from 2007 to 2011. At the international level, he is serving the Public Services International based in France as the President for Africa and the Vice- President, International.

WITH globalisation, the world of work witnessed a new trend in employer- employee relationship. Out-sourcing became a new trend with employers outsourcing jobs which they consider not to crucial to their core business. From the perspective of organised labour, it was seen as the employers way of reducing the cost of labour.

EMPLOYERS in the Shipping/Courier sector of the Maritime industry have reach agreement with organized labour how modalities for sustainable gratuity in the sector.

National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, and IndustriALL Global Union, IGU, have worrisome is the continuous delay in settlement of the entitlements of workers of Kaduna Textiles Limited, KTL, since 2002 by its owner-19 Northern States of the Federation.

WEDNESDAY, May 1, Nigerian workers celebrated the Workers’ Day like their counterparts across the globe, besides the United States of America, USA. For Nigerian workers, this year’s celebration was very significant because it was the last before the centenary celebration of Nigeria’s nationhood.

WEDNESDAY, May 1, Nigerian workers celebrated the Workers’ Day like their counterparts across the globe, besides the United States of America, USA. For Nigerian workers, this year’s celebration was very significant because it was the last before the centenary celebration of Nigeria’s nationhood.

THE struggle must continue until victory is achieved was the thrust of felicitation messages by unions to members during yesterday’s May Day celebration.

UNION Bank pensioners, have petitioned the National Pension Commission, PenCom, accusing the management of the bank of breach of the Pension Reform Act, PRA, 2004, to their detriment.

THERE is no end in sight as lecturers in all the four tertiary institutions owned by Osun state and the government have continued to flex muscles over unremitted pension deduction and age of retirement for the lecturers.

FEDERAL Ministry of Labour and Productivity, called on organized labour in the country to report workplace accidents to appropriate authorities for necessary action prevent regular occurrence.

THERE is no end in sight as lecturers in all the four tertiary institutions owned by Osun state and the government have continued to flex muscles over unremitted pension deduction and age of retirement for the lecturers.

IN time past, aggrieved workers, pensioners and even jobless Nigerians trouped to Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, offices across the country, to seek for redress and intervention in their plight. Redress and intervention they were getting that employers were not only thinking twice before victimizing workers, they were indeed afraid to victimize workers because the fear of labour was the beginning of wisdom for employers perceived as anti-labour.