The ILO announced Fiji’s ratification on its news portal on Thursday, stating that by this action, Convention No. 190 will enter into force in a year’s time, on June 25, 2021.
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Comrade Aborisade also stated that salary payment method in Imo State contravenes the Protection of Wages Convention No. 95 of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) which, in Article 12(1), makes it mandatory and obligatory, that “wages shall be paid regularly”
Comrade Akele was in the leadership of NANS that waged the iconic battle against the introduction of tuition in higher institutions in the country.
The Policy Brief, which is based on data and analysis from the International Labour Organization (ILO), warns that many of those people who have lost their jobs and livelihoods in recent months will not be able to re-enter labour markets any time soon.
Contributing to the discussions on the Union’s political statement in the wake of the pandemic, Comrade Aremu subscribed to the view that “decades of de-industrialisation and reliance upon global networks of production and trade have depleted the capacity of Africa to produce or commandeer at short notice essential goods, from food to personal protective equipment—even basic pharmaceutical and medical supplies”. He observed that the recent massive disruption of the supply chain from China calls for reindustrialisation, value addition and self-reliance in Africa.
In January this year, Uruguay became the first country to ratify and as at today, it remains the only country that has ratified the Convention. Ratification by Nigeria would make Nigeria the 2nd ratifying country and it would enable the Convention to come into force, twelve months after. Is Nigeria ready to make history and be counted among ILO member States that set the pace for establishing a framework for human progress and scoring victory for humanity on an international basis? This is the critical historical challenge that ratification or non-ratification of Convention 190 poses to the current Federal Government of Nigeria.
Comrade Wabba said while Uruguay has beaten Nigeria and the rest of the world as the first country to ratify Convention 190, Nigeria still has the opportunity to become the second country to ratify and bring it into force globally as the Convention needs ratification of only two countries to enforce it.
The workers made the demand at a congress meeting of public servants held last Tuesday, 16th June at the Secretariat Complex in Ado Ekiti, the state capital. The congress therefore gave the state’s leadership of organized labour the mandate to issue a 7-day ultimatum to the state government with effect from Wednesday, 17th June 2020 to act decisively on their demands, failure of which the state’s workforce will embark on an indefinite industrial action slated to commence by Wednesday, 24th June, 2020.
The MoU, signed by Comrade Ayuba Wabba, President of the NLC, Comrade Quadri Olaleye, President of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), and Dr Timothy Olawale, Director-General of NECA at the Paschal Bafyau Labour House headquarters of the NLC in the Central Business District of Abuja, is a collaborative effort intended by the parties to cushion the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the world of work. The MoU was witnessed by Mr Denis Zulu, Director, Abuja Office of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
“We have fixed a timeline for ourselves that before the end of this week, the health workers captured in that particular COVID-19 net; frontline workers should get all their hazard and inducement allowances for the month of April and May before the close of the week,” the press release stated, adding that the decision on the commencement of the implementation of the allowances was reached along with the Accountant-General of the Federation and the Minister of Health.