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Federal Government has pledged its resolve towards implementation of all ratified International Labour Organization (ILO) Conventions and prompt report rendition.
Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment gave the assurance recently in Abuja during an interactive session with a team of expert from the International Labour Organization (ILO).I
“It is important to express our efforts at aligning our labour laws with the contemporary issues in labour administration and in the spirit of ILO convention to which we are a signatory.
“In this regards, efforts are being made to fast track the passage of the outstanding labour laws by the National Assembly with necessary review and amendment in tandem with development in International Labour Standards and the dynamics in Nigeria labour administration system, policies and practices.
“In order to ensure that progress was made in updating these outstanding labour bills, officials of the Ministry of Labour and Employment recently undertook in-house validation meeting to effect corrections and inputs made during the tripartite plus meeting and prepare the bills for further scrutiny, validation and consensus building by all stakeholders.
“I want to assure you that we will again re-energize the various departments so we can speed up on the revalidation of the bills, to see the ones we can again get into law,” the Minister stressed.
In addition, Ngige assured that Nigeria as one of the frontline member states of the International Labour Organization having been recently elected into the governing board of the ILO both as a government representative, workers representatives and employers’ representative; cannot afford to lag behind.
“I want to assure you that with the technical assistance you have rendered, we will work diligently to ensure that we render outstanding reports in September as stipulated; we will do so and I want to assure you that we will not fail,” he assured.
In his remarks, David Dakenoo Kwabla, leader of the ILO delegation explained that the mission came at the request from the Government of Nigeria through the ILO to come and build capacity for the Ministry and relevant stakeholder in the country to enable the government of Nigeria to fulfill its obligation on the reporting on international labour standards which are outstanding.
