RECENTLY, a bank ‘employee’ engaged on contract basis indeed an outsourced worker was engaged in momumental fraud in a bank . His arrest once more brought to the fore the issue of who should be engaged and which section of the an industry as sensitive as the banking industry should depend on outsourced employees.

Retirees of the Obafemi Awolowo University OAU, Ile Ife Osun state under the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, have called on the Federal Government to review the scheme to give succor to those that have served their country faithfully and selflessly.

LAST week, representatives of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trustfund, NSITF and the Nigeria Employers Consultative Association, NECA, met in Lagos for the second award ceremony of the NSITF/NECA Safe workplace intervention project as well as an interactive session with participating employers on the implementation of the Employee’ Compensation Scheme, ECS, in the past one year.

Workers of Labour Transport City Services have not been paid their salaries in the last seven months.

‘Since we were retired, no kobo was paid to me. Every time, we would be called to come to Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, to fill one form after another. Sometimes, we sleep at Awolowo Road on the bare floor, for us to be attended to. In spite of that, nothing has come out of it. It was only in 2010 October that I was paid, since then, no payment. My children are in school, I can’t provide for them. Anytime they come back, we all starve and they will cry all day till they go back. There is nobody to help me except God. My husband died since 2003′