Tag: workers
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Minimum wage: Workers threaten strike as negotiation talk with FG suffers fresh setback
Workers, under the aegis of the Joint Public Sector Negotiating Council (JPSNC), are threatening to go on strike as a meeting of the Federal Government and the unions ended yesterday in a deadlock. The negotiations on the consequential adjustment, which was earlier adjourned till September 4 to allow the government’s team brief President Muhammadu Buhari,…
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UN already lost 72 workers in 2019 – Guterres
The United Nations has lost 72 personnel so far this year, its Secretary General, Antonio Guterres said in New York on Friday. Guterres said this at a wreath laying ceremony and memorial service to mark the opening of the UN Staff Day celebrations at the organisation’s headquarters. The ceremony was held in honor of civilian…
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Multichoice set to sack over 2000 workers
Naspers’ pay-television business MultiChoice Group, owners of DSTV is planning to lay off close to 2,200 workers in a shake-up of its customer care service, the company said on Friday. The axing will affect workers in South Africa. MultiChoice, which competes with Netflix in online streaming via Showmax, said in a statement it is launching…
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Bello pays December, January salaries to Kogi workers
The organised labour has commended the Kogi State government for the payment of December 2018 and January 2019 salaries and pensions to its workers and pensioners. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) gave the comendation in a statement issued in Lokoja on Sunday. The statement, signed by the state Chairman…
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FG says 2.78m workers die from occupation accidents
The Federal Government says 2.78 million workers die from occupational accidents and work-related diseases annually, while additional 374 million suffer from non-fatal occupational accidents globally each year. Sen. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment stated this while commemorating the 2019 World Day for Safety and Health at Work on Tuesday in Abuja. The World…
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Owing 38 months workers salary: I know I’ve goofed – Gov. Bello
Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello for the first time publicly admitted that his administration has committed blunder by owing workers between eight and 38 months due to the over two years staff screening exercise he initiated. Governor Bello who spoke through his Chief of Staff, Edward Onoja at the 7th NLC quadrennial congress on Thursday…
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No plans to sell NNPC, refineries, FG assures Nigerian workers
…As labour calls for reversal of power sector privatisation The Federal Government has assured the workers that it has no plan to sell any of the nation’s refineries and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Anybody who has such plan, it said, did not have the workers’ interest at heart. President Muhammadu Buhari stated these…
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Minimum Wage: Nigerian workers protest, decry poor living conditions [Photos]
The Nigeria Labour Congress ( NLC ) has embarked on a nationwide protest today ahead of the commencement of an indefinite strike. The protest rally was to create awareness on the new Minimum Wage for workers and to press home its demand for an executive draft bill on the N30,000 minimum wage to be transmitted…
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Minimum Wage: Mobilise for indefinite national strike, NLC tells workers
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has pledged commitment to workers welfare while appealing to the Federal Government to urgently transmit the bill on the new national minimum wage to the National Assembly. Ayuba Wabba, NLC president, made the appeal in a New Year message on Tuesday in Abuja. According to him, 2018 remains one of…
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Workers threatens to shut down National Assembly on Monday
The Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN), National Assembly chapter, has issued a 4-day warning strike notice to commence on Monday, December 17. The Chairman of the association, Mr Bature Mohammed, in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, said this decision was reached in an emergency congress held on December 14. President Muhammadu Buhari is…