Flexible jobs, fragile rights: Employers raise alarm over labour trends
By Victor Ahiuma-Young The Chemical and Non-Metallic Products Employers’ Federation, CANMPEF, has raised concerns over the growing shift from traditional permanent employment to flexible work arrangements, warning that the trend could undermine job security, social protection and other workers’ rights if not properly regulated. The Executive Secretary of CANMPEF, Mr. Olorunfemi Oke, gave the warning […]
Tension in ports over fate of 3,700 dockworkers
WEDNESDAY, January 20, 2016, stakeholders in the Maritime sector met with officials of the Ministry of Transportation, Abuja, to discuss the vexed issue of Tally Clerks and On-Board Gangway Security men.
Infrastructure: Pension funds invested according to stringent laws—PenCom
FEW days ago, the Director-General of the National Pension Commission, PenCom, Mrs. Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, led other top management staff of the commission to an interactive session with a cross section of journalists in Lagos.
Labour rejects use of pension fund for infrastructure development
Agents of government have resumed their push for the use of pension fund to finance infrastructure development in the country.
The latest of such push came from Minister Power, Works and Housing; Babatunde Fashola that the nation’s Pension Fund be used for infrastructural development in Nigeria.
NLC takes major step towards resolving factional crisis
ON Monday, January 25, the Alhaji Hassan Sunmonu-led Reconciliatory Committee, RC, took a major step towards resolving the leadership crisis rocking the NLC by appointing a seven-man panel to address the issue of parallel executives in the 36 states and Abuja.
Govt already taking wrong steps on power, says Labour
THIS is the concluding part of Labour Vanguard’s interview with Mr Joe Ajaero, General Secretary of the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, wherein he spoke on the power distribution companies, DISCOs, and who he said are shortchanging Nigerians. The second part was published earlier. In this, Ajaero speaks on, among others, issues of […]
