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.”

THE issue of poor and lack of access to quality healthcare services in Nigeria, especially for Nigerian workers and masses amidst increasing poverty, has remained a major topic for discourse at any healthcare forum. It appears the situation may not get better in 2013 if the view of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, is to be taking seriously.

THE re-election of Governor Olusegun Mimiko of the Labour Party, LP, by voters in Ondo State has brought to the fore, a number of issues.

THE Federal Government has given indication of its plan to issue strict guidelines to regulate and curb the prevailing issues of contract staffing and casualisation in the maritime industry, even as the Maritime Workers union of Nigeria, MWUN said welfare of maritime workers remained central objective for its existence.

THERE are strong indications that the relationship between the organized labour in the nation’s aviation industry and the Minister, Princess Stella Oduah, has deteriorated as two unions in the industry are planning a showdown with the Minister over alleged unethical practices and illegalities.

INTERNAL crisis rocking the House of Representatives Committee on Pension, has prevented the committee from performing its oversight function on the Custom, Immigration and Prison Pension Office, CIPPO.

…Seeks clarification on effective date
NON-ACADEMIC Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, has called on the Federal Government to expand the coverage of the 65 years retirement to staff of Research Institutes and Colleges of Agriculture in line with the Agreement it reached with the Unions in the Sector in January, 2011.

HEALTH workers in Nigeria and other West African countries gathered recently in Tema, Ghana, to review the state of healthcare delivery in the sub-region.

SINCE the inception of the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, which came as fallout of the Pension Reform Act of 2004, there has been an unending controversy over continuity of gratuity as part of terminal benefits of employees especially in the private sector.

ASSOCIATION of Pension Operators in Nigeria, PenOp, has faulted the withdrawal of some federal government organization from the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, especially the military, warning that the old scheme is unsustainable.