The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has called for a deliberate action aimed at turning toxic flood of electric and electronic waste (e-waste) produced around the world into a valuable source of decent work. Representatives of governments, workers’ and employers’ organisations agreed at a meeting at the ILO in Geneva that governments should increase and promote…

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said the growing technological advancement poses a fresh threat to its quest of achieving industrial harmony worldwide. ILO Country Director for Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Dennis Zulu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Abuja that technology was fast replacing workers in most parts of…

Equal rights for women’ is perhaps one phrase that is most misunderstood in many parts of the world. The misunderstanding of this concept transcends peoples, race, religion, gender, creed or level of education.  ‘Equal rights, not equality with men’, is how this concept has constantly been explained to those who believed that the promoters of…

Who could believe that even after official abolition of slavery that slavery still exists even in this jet age? The International Labour Organisation declares that more than 40 million people are victims of modern slavery. To address this perennial problem, December 2nd has been set aside as International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. This…

It is often said that while there is an abundance of policies to tackle youth unemployment in Nigeria, the framework to make them produce the desired result is largely lacking. Labour experts believe that there is an urgent need to fashion out appropriate action plan that is aimed at galvanising various opportunities youth can explore…

Organised Labour has demanded an immediate end to all forms of employment that offend human dignity, deny workers access to living wage and social protection. They also urged the Federal Ministry of Labour to step up and renew its commitment to further enhance its monitoring duties, ensuring that every employer complies with the provisions of…

The commitment to reduce barriers to decent employment for the youth has gotten a major boost as McDonald has joined 43 partners who have pledged to reduce barriers to decent employment for youth while boosting access to decent work around the globe. McDonald’s Corporation is the latest company to make a commitment to address the…

The Federal Government must adopt an industrial resolution mechanism to resolve the labour crises in Kaduna and Kogi states to escape the looming sanction from the International Labour Organisation (ILO), labour experts have said.  Reacting to the dragging of Nigeria to the ILO Committee on Application of Standards for flouting ILO conventions 86 and 97…

The third Vice President, Nigeria Institute of Architects, Mobolaji Adeniyi, has decried the poor safety management system, which leads to the death of 24.1 per cent of every 100,000 workers in the country yearly.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has urged co-ordinated action to end rising cases of children labourers worldwide, which has hit 152 million. Director-General of the ILO, Guy Ryder, who spoke yesterday on the sideline of the on-going ILO yearly conference in Geneva, Switzerland, said the economic root causes of child-labour must be such as global…

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has urged a renewal of spirit of tripartism to tackle world of work challenges as the 107th International Labour Conference (ILC) begins in Geneva.   The conference, which is slated to end next Friday, 8th June 2018 is expected to address a range of issues such as workplace violence, women…

According to the flagship report of the global labour watch body, tagged ‘World employment and social outlook 2018: Greening with jobs’, action to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius will result in sufficient job creation to more than offset job losses of six million elsewhere.