AS part of measures to put paid to the incessant agitations and industrial unrest from its workforce, the Lagos State Government has inaugurated an 18_man committee charged with the responsibility of developing pay policy, review and salary determination in Lagos public service.

Recently, the military hierarchy began to make a case for the withdrawal of military men from the barely six years old Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, introduced by the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo, a retired general of the Nigerian Army.

WORRIED by the alarming rate of unfair labour practices in the Petroleum industry and its threat to industrial unrest, the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has petitioned the Minister of Petroleum Resources, urging him to address the issues to calm the restiveness in the sector and avoid industrial unrest.

Unless the federal ministry of labour acts speedily, its employees in Geneva, Switzerland may turn destitutes.
A Nigerian resident in Geneva contacted Labour Vanguard and expressed concern about the state of the employees.

By Edward Olobayo The time has truly come for Nigeria Insurers Association (NIA) to be told, loud and clear, that it has no Workers’ Mandate on the Employee Compensation Bill (ECB) and therefore does not have a basis to say the ECB is an anti-workers bill. For years, the insurance industry has administered the Workmen’s […]