Minimum Wage - Labour Moves for Wider Coverage of Workers
Vanguard
Organised Labour is making efforts to ensure more workers are covered by the upcoming National Minimum Wage, NMW, in its determination to reduce increasing cases of poverty across… Read more »
Parliament Grants Ramaphosa Power to Set Political Donation Limits - South African News Briefs - May 17, 2024
allAfrica
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Minimum Wage - Labour Quits Talks As FG Offers N48,000 - Ops N54,000
Vanguard
Organised Labour yesterday walked out of the minimum wage negotiation after rejecting the government and the Organized Private Sector, OPS, new minimum wage proposals of N48,000… Read more »
Minimum Wage - Govt Calls Committee Meeting, Labour Insists On May 31 Deadline
Vanguard
Following Organised Labour's insistence on downing tools and declaring a nationwide strike if discussions on the new National Minimum Wage are not concluded by May 31, 2024, the… Read more »
Minimum Wage - Govt's N48,000 Proposal Makes No Sense - TUC
Vanguard
The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has rejected the N48,000 proposed by the Federal Government as the new minimum wage, saying it does not make any sense. Read more »
Salary Arrears - ASUU Threatens 'No Pay, No Work', Issues 2-Week Ultimatum
Leadership
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to stop rendering services after the next two weeks if the President Bola Tinubu administration fails to pay public… Read more »
No Plan to Use Workers' Pension Funds Illegally, Federal Govt Replies Atiku
Leadership
The Federal Government has clarified that it has no plan to illegally access the savings and pensions of Nigerian workers to fund infrastructure projects. Read more »
N19.6trn Pension Fund - Labour Opposes Govt's Plans to Undermine Retirement Savings
Vanguard
The Organised Labour has frowned at the Federal Government's plan to utilise the N19.66 trillion pension funds for infrastructure development. Read more »
Cosatu Applauds President Cyril Ramaphosa's Signing of the Long Overdue National Health Insurance Bill [press release]
COSATU
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) applauds President Cyril Ramaphosa's signing the long overdue National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill. The Federation is heartened… Read more »
Denosa Welcomes the Signing of NHI Bill By President [press release]
COSATU
The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) warmly welcomes the signing of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa today,… Read more »
Why We Walked Out of N48,000 Minimum Wage Talks With Federal Govt - TUC President
Leadership
President of the Trade Union Council of Nigeria (TUC), Festus Osifo, has said that the union walked out of negotiations meeting with the Federal Government due to government's… Read more »
Labour Party Alleges Foul Play in Enugu Govt's N100 Billion Oil Palm Deal
Premium Times
The Enugu State Government, last week, signed a N100 billion deal with Pragmatic Palms Limited to resuscitate the moribund United Palm Products Limited in the state. Read more »
Unemployment Rate Drops 0.2 Percent in Q1 of 2024 [upd 1]
Tunis Afrique Presse
The unemployment rate dropped to 16.2% in Q1 of 2024 from 16.4% in Q4 of 2023 and 16.1% in Q1 of 2023 as a result mainly of the increase in the number of people in active… Read more »
Building Collapse Day 8 - Officials Ask Families of Missing, Dead to Come Forward
allAfrica
Municipality officials in George are experiencing difficulty in obtaining the accurate names of people missing or deceased due to the building collapse in the town which killed 27… Read more »
Online Debate Rages Over Women's Participation in the Workforce
allAfrica
The online conversation surrounding women's participation in the labour force is heavily polarized, according to a new report by the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change… Read more »