FACTS emerging from factories across the country indicate that employers avid for profit at all cost is rapidly compounding their care free attitude to health and safety issues at work places. Almost on a daily basis, various degrees of industrial accidents are recorded, from minor to major injuries to employees.

By Victor Ahiuma-Young & Ifunaya Okafor FOR quite a while, there has been altercation between the management of Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) and  its Pensioners over  a backlog of unpaid arrears  benefits spanning over eight years. Some pensioners are also in court  with the management over benefits that date back to 1991. Last week, the […]

By Victor Ahiuma-Young TRUSTFUND Pensions, has spent over two  billion Naira to settle the benefits of a total of 14, 691 retirees inherited from the defunct National Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) in 2006. Head of the NSITF Fund Division of the Trustfund Pension Plc, Mr. Simon-Peters Okoduwa, who disclosed this in  Abuja, said  the […]

By Funmi Komolafe &  Victor Ahiuma-Young SINCE the establishment of the National Productivity Centre (NPC), in 1987, with the mandate to stimulate productivity consciousness in all sectors of Nigerian economy, with the aim of  generating  visible improvement in the quantity and quality of services rendered and goods produced, the centre has been trying its best […]

The minister for labour and productivity, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode will today in Abuja     brief the press on the activities of his ministry and its parastatals. The  briefing will focus  on events in the last one year as well as the ministry’s projections. A statement by Assistant Director (Press), Samuel Olowookere, said the briefing is […]

For almost a decade , the Nigeria Labour Congress and the federal government have been at logger heads over an issue; deregulation. Is it time for both to resolve their differences? Who pays the price? Is there a division within the labour movement as reported by some dailies? These are the issues that Labour Vanguard got the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Abdulwaheed Ibrahim Omar to speak on.

As it is in Nigeria,so it is in the United States of America. Perhaps the difference is that we have not heard so much noise about agitation of a rise in the national minimum wage but on July, 24, the federal minimum wage was raised for the “ third year in a row” according to Aaron Smith of CNN money.com.

It been over a month that members of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and Educational Institutions have been on strike. Indeed NASU commenced a nationwide strike on July 8, 2009 . The strike coincided with that of the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Senior Staff Association ( SSANU).

THE Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity, has said the Non-Academic Staff of Colleges of Education under the aegis of the Senior Staff Union of Colleges of Education of Nigeria (SSUCOEN), is not a registered trade union in the country and therefore advised stakeholders in the sector to ignore the group.

For almost a decade, the Nigeria Labour Congress and the federal government have been at logger heads over an issue; deregulation. Is it time for both to resolve their differences? Who pays the price? Is there a division within the labour movement as reported by some dailies? These are the issues that Labour Vanguard got the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Abdulwaheed Ibrahim Omar to speak on

Addressing the delegates, President of NUPENG, Comrade Peter Akpatason, praised members for standing steadfast despite the challenges posed by globalisation, global economic recession and the crisis in the Niger Delta which has remained the greatest threat to job security of members.

THE traditional belief, where girl child is rated as not worthy to be invested in her education has deprived many women of the opportunity to assume leadership positions in the country.

For over a week now, post offices across the country have been shut down. Hospital services suspended as members of the National Union of Posts and Telecommunication Employees ( NUPTEE), Medical and Health Workers Union, National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, Non Academic Staff Union of Universities commenced a strike last week.

The 98th session of the International Labour Organisation ( ILO) held in Geneva, Switzerland last month, was one in which the three social partners; workers, government and employers agreed to work together to create job more job opportunities .This was done with the unanimous adoption of the Global Jobs Pact.

According to the Nigerian constitution, any time the federal government carries out a review of salary of civil and public servants under which category soldiers fall, such review is automatically supposed to be reflected in the monthly take home benefits of pensioners; military pensioners inclusive.