The International Labour Oraganisation (ILO) and National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) are working…
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Migrant workers hit 164m globally – ILO
Women earn 20% less than men –ILO report
Joseph Inokotong, Abuja Women all over the world continue to be paid approximately 20 per cent less than men, says the new International Labour Organisation (ILO) Global Wage Report 2018/2019. The report calculates gender pay gaps in innovative and more accurate ways, using data covering some 70 countries and about 80 per cent of wage […]
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Minimum wage: Tripartite committee yet to agree on figure
NAN The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, on Wednesday said that the Tripartite Committee on Minimum Wage had yet to agree on any figure on the matter. Ngige, who briefed State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, dismissed media reports that the committee had […]
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World Teachers’ Day: Abuja-based principals, teachers want investment in education
NAN A cross section of school principals, teachers and students in the Federal Capital Territory have called for investment in the nation’s education sector to promote effective teaching and learning. They spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) to mark 2018 World Teachers Day with theme: “Right to education means the […]
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ILO, experts seek urgent elimination of hazardous child labour
In marking World Day Against Child Labour today, the international Labour Organisation (ILO) and experts have canvassed prioritising campaigns against child labour and promoting safe, healthy work for employed youths. Director General of ILO, Guy Ryder, who disclosed that about 73 million children are engaged in hazardous work, said 153 million children between ages five […] …
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FG seeking to proscribe us, NLC tells ILO
NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, has reported the Federal Government to International Labour Organisation, ILO, accusing it of working clandestinely to proscribe and undermine collective labour relations in Nigeria.
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ILO urges global action against child labour as under-18 labourers hits 152 million
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 […] …