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ILO adopts first-ever global convention protecting platform workers

ILO adopts first-ever global convention protecting platform workers

By Victor Ahiuma-Young GENEVA — In a landmark move set to reshape the future of work, the International Labour Organization, ILO, has adopted the world’s first international convention aimed at protecting millions of workers in the rapidly expanding digital platform economy.The new Decent Work in the Platform Economy Convention, 2026 was approved at the closing […]
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Employers’ body tasks govt on poverty

Employers’ body tasks govt on poverty

EMPLOYERS in the nation’s Chemical and Non-metallic products sector of the nation’s economy under the umbrella of Chemical and Non-Metallic Products Employers Federation (CAMPEF), recently held its 30th Annual General Meeting (AGM), in Lagos, to appraise the performance of the sector, the challenges facing it and the state of Nigeria’s economy generally and declared that there is not much to cheer.

Deregulation: NLC gives alternative

Deregulation: NLC gives alternative

By Funmi Komolafe As Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) renews its suspended protest against the deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry among other things, Nigeria Labour Congress has listed three alternatives to the planned deregulation of the sector insisting that the nearly decade tangle of Labour and Government can only be […]

Low capacity utilisation  threatens industrial development — Employers

Low capacity utilisation threatens industrial development — Employers

By Victor Ahiuma-Young FOR employers in the food and beverage sector of the nation’s economy, the gradual and steady waning capacity utilisation and employment generation in the sector and indeed, the entire manufacturing sector in the country, is something that the government must urgently address frontally if the country’s dream of joining top 20 economies […]

Employees, our greatest assets — MON

Employees, our greatest assets — MON

MOBIL Oil Nigeria (MON) Plc, has said its greatest asset remains it employees and that the long-term success of MON depends on coaching, mentoring and developing employees to attain their full potential