The Federal Government on Tuesday hinted of its new moves to ensure the implementation of a standard and effective labour best practice in the informal economy. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, disclosed this while declaring open the 2021 two-day annual conference of Senior Officers of the Professional Departments of the Federal […]
There are strong indications that plans by the Federal Government and the labour unions’ representatives to reach a truce on consequential adjustment on the N30,000 minimum wage on Monday did not achieve any tangible results. The disappointed workers have, therefore, threatened to resume their suspended industrial action over in the national minimum wage implementation. A […]
Despite last minutes efforts by the Federal Government to avert a national industrial action by seeking to parley with leaders of the organized labour today, workers in the country have said that their plan to embark on strike effective Thursday remained irreversible. The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Ayuba Wabba, on Wednesday […]
The organized labour on Wednesday gave the Federal Government two-week ultimatum for finalizing the ongoing discussions on the New Minimum Wage to avoid industrial crisis. The labour leaders, who are members of the Minimum Wage Committee at a joint news conference in Lagos, charged the government to ensure that the committee concludes its work within […]
The Federal Government has indicated its intention to review downward the 500 percent tariff increase imposed recently on local beverages and tobacco products. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, made the disclosure on Friday when members of the National Union of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Joint Employers and Workers Association visited him […]