LABOUR

The Federal Government has expressed serious concerns over the rising unemployment rate in the country, saying that over 15 million Nigerians are looking for white collar jobs. Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, who expressed this concern in an interview with some journalists in Enugu on Monday, said...

Civil servants in Lagos State on Monday said they would receive nothing less than N50,000 as minimum wage. The workers gathered in front of the Lagos State House of Assembly after a peaceful march from Ikeja under bridge yesterday. Chairman of the State chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC,...

  Organised labour on Wednesday threatened to embark on a nationwide strike from Oct. 16, if the Federal Government fails to reconvene the meeting of the committee negotiating the consequential adjustment on the new minimum wage. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) at a meeting...

Organised labour has alleged that the Federal Government is courting another industrial crisis over delay in the implementation of N30, 000 minimum wage. To avert another fresh strike, the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC) has urged Nigerians to appeal to the Federal Government to implement the new minimum...

  Workers under the auspices of the Joint Public Sector Negotiating Council are getting set for a possible industrial action as a meeting of the Federal government and the unions again ended in a deadlock on Monday. The negotiations on the consequential adjustment which was earlier adjourned to September 4...

The Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Ekiti State has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to ensure that negotiations on the new minimum wage do not go beyond Wednesday, August 14. The TUC in a statement by the state chairman, Sola Adigun, accused the government of “foot dragging the...

The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has accused the federal government of betrayal of trust over implementation of the new national minimum wage. In a press statement by its President, Comrade Quadri Olaleye, and Secretary General, Comrade Musa-Lawal Ozigi, the Congress said it was rejecting the recent circular released...

  The National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions Employees (NUBIFIE), on Thursday shut Ecobank Nigeria headquarters in Lagos. This followed sack of 900 workers of the lender nationwide. The union said it will continue with the picketing of the bank until management of Ecobank ensures the sacked workers...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has advised the federal and state governments to quicken the pace of negotiations on the template to implement the new minimum wage of N30,000 The Federal Government minimum wage implementation committee under the chairmanship of the Head of Service has been deliberating on the modality...

Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, has said that investment in social insurance was a key to achieving a stronger global economy, saying societies across the world must begin by strengthening social programmes. Lagarde spoke at a special forum organised by the International Labour Organisation (ILO)...