ON the contrary, organised labour still represents the protected section of the poor. This is because trade unions have fought for right to collective bargaining which has improved wages and benefits in the world of work. Today Nigeria has minimum wage law which prescribes the pay floor bellow which no worker falls.

NATIONAL Pension Commission, PenCom, has sent debt recovery agents after management of media houses and other companies who have continued to breach the Pension Reform Act, PRA, 2004 by failing to remit deducted pension fund and have continued to incur high debt profile

INCREASING number of workers in both private and public sectors are choosing the Trustfund Pensions Plc, for their retirement saving account, RSA, the management has said. It explained that the choice of Trustfund is based on its solid financial base and sound management team.

100 years ago, precisely, 1912, the Nigeria Civil Service Union was registered. That marked beginning of what is best described as organized labour.

“If you look at the 100 years of the labour movement, you will agree with me that the labour movement in Nigeria has outlived the Nigerian nation. It is the struggle of labour union that put together what we have as an entity called Nigeria today. The history of labour movement has always been characterised by struggles.

FEW days ago, Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, called on government to sack 50 percent of its employees to reduce the cost of governance. Some have argued that Sanusi, who has never hidden his dislike for organised labour, is just looking for ways to weaken labour.

IN recent month’s reports of pension scam carried banner headlines in the country’s news Media, both print and electronics resulting to probes on pension administration by special committees of both the Senate and House of Representatives. Some of the well-published scams are those of the Office of Head of Service of the Federation, Police pension and PHCN.

NATIONAL Pension Commission, PenCom, has sent debt recovery agents after management of media houses and other companies who have continued to breach the Pension Reform Act, PRA, 2004 by failing to remit deducted pension fund and have continued to incur high debt profile.

THERE was no better opportunity than the inaugural Nigeria Social Insurance Trustfund, NSITF/ Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA,organised national workplace safety awareness day/ award ceremony, in Lagos, for NSITF to inform recalcitrant employers that they will hence forth face sanction if they fail to comply with Employee’s Compensation Scheme, ECS, a fall-out of Employee’s Compensation Act, ECA, 2010.

NO fewer than 21 states have now fully embraced the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, a fall-out of the Pension Reform Act, PRA, 2004, which discontinued the flawed Pay As You Go, PAYG, scheme.

COMRADE Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, as President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, did not only fight for jobs, but for decent jobs as was witnessed in his anti-casualisation campaigns. Now as Governor of Edo State, Comrade Oshiomhole, after positively impacting on the lives of people of Edo State directly through new roads, renovated schools, clinics, hospitals; water and electricity projects, mass transit buses, employment generation, paying wages as when due, but has given indication of plans for human capital development among others.

TRUSTFUND Pensions Plc, has decried state government selection of Pension Fund Administrators, PFAs, for workers without recourse to organised labour, lamenting that “the development does not speak well of the labour movement.”

ARCHBISHOP Nicholas Okoh, the Primate, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), has called on the Federal Government to address the plight of pensioners and inadequate healthcare of senior citizens.

WEDNESDAY, October 31st provided an opportunity for a selected group of workers under the umbrella of the Lagos state branch of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, to abreast of the operations of the Employees Compensation Scheme, ECS, a fall-out of Employee’s Compensation Act, ECA, and also raise issues. It was an interactive session with the management of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF,in Lagos, facilitated by Unite Consult Limited.

NO fewer than 21 states have now fully embraced the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, a fall-out of the Pension Reform Act, PRA, 2004, which discontinued the flawed Pay As You Go, PAYG, scheme.