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 […]
Minister warns against wild-cat-strike
MINISTER of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu has warned Nigerian workers against “wild-cat-strike,” saying that it has become fashionable nowadays for trade unions to go on strike in utter disregard of rules and regulation.
Nigeria must return to manufacturing
Speaking, President of NLC Comrade Abdulwahed Omar, commended the textile union for its consistent struggle for the revival of textile industry, saying their efforts had yielded fruits with the reopening of United Nigeria Textile Plc, Kaduna and the relative stability in the sector.
Ojukwu: Biafra soldiers get N1.5bn Pension benefits
Military Pensions Board, MPB, has said the late elder statesman, Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu alongside other pardoned soldiers that fought on the side of the defunct Biafra during the Nigeria Civil war, have been paid their pensions and arrears totaling N1.5billion by the Federal Government.
Why we rallied in for Oshiomhole – Labour leaders
THE ancient of Benin City was thrown agog a week ago when the Edo State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, counterpart, held a solidarity rally, declaring support for the re election bid of Governor Adams Oshiomhole, immediate past President of NLC.
Faces of anti-labour senators
ON Tuesday, March, 2011, at the floor of the Senate Nigerians watched in total shock another assault against Nigerian workers and its peoples through the anti-workers’ Bill sponsored by Senator Heinekken Lokpobiri, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator from Bayelsa State seeking to make it unlawful for the trade unions in Nigeria to embark on any strike without obtaining thepermission of the different organs of the union through a ballot.
