LABOUR

  The Federal Government and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) have agreed to continue talks over post-subsidy removal palliatives for workers before the 21-day ultimatum issued by the NLC. Both also pledged to find solutions to key demands tabled before the government by organised labour before the deadline. Mr Simon...

  The Federal Government has again invited the leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress to a meeting in order to resolve issues over the looming industrial action. The meeting between the two parties had been scheduled for Monday September 18,2023. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Sunday, by...

  The Federal Government has appealed to the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to shelve its planned two-day warning strike slated to commence on Tuesday. The appeal was made on Monday by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Simon Lalong, in Abuja. He identified the reverse of the...

Nigerian banks have issued a notice to embark on a two-day nationwide strike. The banks said financial services would be withdrawn on September 5 and 6, 2023. The National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institution Employees (NUBIFE) gave the directive in a memo dated September 2, 2023, signed by...

A former Statistician-General of Federation/Chief Executive Officer of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Dr. Yemi Kale, has criticised the methodology used in calculating Nigeria’s unemployment rate from 20 hours to one hour per week. This comes barely a week after the NBS released a new data that put employment...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened to proceed on a total, comprehensive and indefinite nationwide shutdown of the country if there is another increase in the pump price of petrol from the existing N617 per litre, which it describes as illegal. This followed reports that the oil marketers have...

The Senate President Godswill Akpabio and the leadership of the upper-lawmaking body met with the organised labour at the National Assembly complex in Abuja on Tuesday. According to the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) president Comrade Joe Ajaero, labour visited the lawmakers at the invitation of the Senate over their grievances...

  The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says it will make its decision on the suspension or continuation of its protest against the effects of fuel subsidy known on Thursday. The NLC president, Mr. Joe Ajaero, made this known to newsmen after a meeting with President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday in...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on Friday, walked out of a scheduled meeting of the Presidential Steering Committee on subsidy palliatives at the Aso Villa, Abuja. NLC president, Joe Ajaero, led his delegation to Femi Gbajabiamila, chief of staff’s office, venue of the scheduled meeting, but stormed out of the...

Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA) has called for immediate government action to avert the nationwide strike being planned by organized labour, saying Nigerians are indeed suffering from the effects of the removal of subsidy on petrol. Reacting to the planned strike, Director-General of NECA, Wale-Smatt Oyerinde, said: “It is true...