NATIONAL Pension Commission, PenCom, has said Trustfund that is managing the contributions to defunct Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, scheme, otherwise known as legacy funds, is awaiting transfer request from contributors to the Retirement Saving Accounts, RSAs.

GOVERNOR Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has approved a three-day Well-Being Retreat programme for 200 top directors in the state public service.

GOvernor Peter Obi of Anambra State has said the state government spent about N10 billion on the payment of arrears of pensions and gratuities to retired civil servants in the last five years.

The unfortunate thing about your plight is that the accident happened before the law came into effect. If not, it will not have been too much of a headache to you or anybody else.”

PETROLEUM and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has threatened to join forces with other unions to ensure full implementation of the N18.000 new minimum.

ALMAGALMATED Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees, AUPCTRE, has blamed states for the wave of industrial unrest over the N18.000 new minimum wage in most states, lamenting that the industrial action is avoidable.

“The unfortunate thing about your plight is that the accident happened before the law came into effect. If not, it will not have been too much of a headache to you or anybody else.”

The world over, labour and industrial sector is central to the government’s agenda. Little wonder countries like the United States of America, France, Germany and the rest of the developed countries do not toy with the industrial sector of the economy because of the important roles the labour sector plays in the attainment of the government’s agenda and development of any nation.

NIgeria Union of Pensioners, NUP, has cried out over undue delay in the payment of members’s monthly pensions.

AHEAD of September 30, 2011 deadline given to the rescued banks by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to recapitalize or face nationalization among others, the management of Union Bank Plc and organized labour has been been meeting to resolve the lingering dispute over benefits to about 2000 former workers especially those retired between 2006 and 2008.