The Federal Government has inaugurated a technical working group to outline the regulations on casualisation and contract staffing.
Meanwhile the National Association of Petroleum and Natural Gas Employees (NUPENG) has aborted the 14 day ultimatum which is already in its sixth day due to an agreement reached with the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA).
Chukwuemeka Wogu, Minister of Labour and Productivity while inaugurating the working group, lamented that multinationals had taken Nigerian workers for granted by outsourcing jobs that are supposed to be permanent jobs.
The minister stressed that government was sincere in its desire to ensure that Nigerians were subjected to human conditions and decent wages, in their places of work.
He urged the committee to work briskly, as it has three months to complete its assignment.
Igwe Achese, NUPENG President, announcing the suspension of the 14 day ultimatum issued to the government, said a Memorandum of Understanding had been signed by the Union and PPPRA to fashion out modalities for smooth operations of the partnership between them.
The President said Nigeria must move away from a culture of insensitivity towards workers.
He added that even though casualisation was a global practice, there were modalities guarding it.
“Most of us put in more hours than is stipulated. In most cases though, you find contract staff performing the core jobs which makes one starts to ask, what are the core jobs?”
“We have to agree that even if there are contract staff, there has to be a minimum condition of service to protect them from working without a future.”
Babatunde Ogun, President of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN), said that all the workers in the sector were asking for was their right to decent work, decent pay, and human conditions.
He urged the federal government to ensure that it implemented the recommendations of the group so that the agreement would be binding.
The group is made up of representatives of NUPENG, PENGASSAN, Oil Producing Trade Sector (OPTS), Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Petroleum Resources and the National Local Content Board.
Meanwhile the National Association of Petroleum and Natural Gas Employees (NUPENG) has aborted the 14 day ultimatum which is already in its sixth day due to an agreement reached with the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA).
Chukwuemeka Wogu, Minister of Labour and Productivity while inaugurating the working group, lamented that multinationals had taken Nigerian workers for granted by outsourcing jobs that are supposed to be permanent jobs.
The minister stressed that government was sincere in its desire to ensure that Nigerians were subjected to human conditions and decent wages, in their places of work.
He urged the committee to work briskly, as it has three months to complete its assignment.
Igwe Achese, NUPENG President, announcing the suspension of the 14 day ultimatum issued to the government, said a Memorandum of Understanding had been signed by the Union and PPPRA to fashion out modalities for smooth operations of the partnership between them.
The President said Nigeria must move away from a culture of insensitivity towards workers.
He added that even though casualisation was a global practice, there were modalities guarding it.
“Most of us put in more hours than is stipulated. In most cases though, you find contract staff performing the core jobs which makes one starts to ask, what are the core jobs?”
“We have to agree that even if there are contract staff, there has to be a minimum condition of service to protect them from working without a future.”
Babatunde Ogun, President of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN), said that all the workers in the sector were asking for was their right to decent work, decent pay, and human conditions.
He urged the federal government to ensure that it implemented the recommendations of the group so that the agreement would be binding.
The group is made up of representatives of NUPENG, PENGASSAN, Oil Producing Trade Sector (OPTS), Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Petroleum Resources and the National Local Content Board.
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