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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 […]
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Plan ahead for retirement, Nwauzor advises workers

CHIEF Nkem Nwauzor, is the immediate past General Secretary of the oldest trade union in the country, the Nigeria Civil Service Union, NCSU. He retired from the union in 2008 after 28 years in the services of NCSU on account of age. In this interview with Pension and You Correspondent, Victor Ahiuma-Young, in Asaba, Delta State, his home state where now lives, he gave insight into how employees should prepare for retirement among others, how his retirement life has been.

We are short of technical manpower- Employers

NECA’s 53rd annual general meeting was another opportunity for private sector employers to make public their views on a number of issues ranging from the challenges of doing business in Nigeria to the exist of multinationals from Nigeria. The relationship of the Organised Private Sector with Government, workers and of course, politics.

Social partners endorse ECB

Sometime in 2005, the three social partners in the industrial relations triphod ; organised labour, private employers and the government met under the auspices of the federal ministry of labour with a representative of the International Labour Organisation in attendance.

Textile union tasks Sambo, Yakowa on industrialisation

NATIONAL Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, has said it has no doubt that the Vice President and Governor of Kaduna state, Arc. Namadi Sambo and Mr.Patrick Yakowa respectively would continue to march towards wealth generation through re-industrialization of the country.

Labour Ministry moves to tackle emerging workplace hazards

EVEN as the cases of industrial accidents and casualty rate in workplaces across the country have assumed a frightening dimension and employers seeming lack of concern for employees’ safety and health at workplaces , the ministry of labour and productivity is exploring ways of addressing risks and hazardous situations in work environments in the country.

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