Strike: Organised private sector vows to enforce 'no work no pay'

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By From Gloria Nwafor (Lagos)

02 June 2024 | 9:23 p.m.

The Organised Private Sector (OPS) threatened to enforce the 'no enactment nary pay' rule for unit who bash not look astatine their workplaces during the concern enactment ordered by organised labour. Director General of the Nigeria Employers' Consultative Association (NECA), Adewale-Smatt Oyerinde, who is presently successful Geneva astatine a league organised by the International Labour…

The Organised Private Sector (OPS) threatened to enforce the ‘no enactment nary pay’ rule for unit who bash not look astatine their workplaces during the concern enactment ordered by organised labour.

Director General of the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA), Adewale-Smatt Oyerinde, who is presently successful Geneva astatine a league organised by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), said backstage employers align their presumption with the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) that the onslaught is illegal.

“There are procedures to follow, and we volition not enactment immoderate arbitrariness. Nigeria is simply a sovereign authorities with rules that usher everyone. We volition enactment appropriateness and align with it successful the discourse of the regularisation of law. Even though we are societal partners, it is guided by the regularisation of law, and that is what we volition align with. Section 43 of the Trade Union Act explicitly states, ‘no enactment nary pay’, and we volition enforce it to the letter,” helium said.

NLC President, Joe Ajaero, and his TUC counterpart, Festus Osifo, had, aft the past gathering with the tripartite committee connected May 31, lamented the Federal Government’s deficiency of committedness to a palmy nationalist minimum wage dialog exercise.

They maintained that since the nationalist minimum wage dialog workout has not been concluded and the agreed wage passed into law, the hike successful energy tariff has not been reversed, and the categorisation of consumers into Bands has not stopped arsenic demanded, they would embark connected the onslaught to property location their demands. They besides lamented that the hike successful energy tariff has further impoverished the radical and denied them the close to decent living.

Up till today, circulars continued to look from affiliate unions, including the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and workers successful the aviation sector, comprising the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN), Association of Nigeria Aviation Professionals (ANAP) and National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE), directing members crossed the federation to guarantee afloat compliance with the NLC and TUC directive.

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