Perm Sec harps on importance of labour administration implementation

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THE Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Kachollom Daju, has stressed that improved labour administration implementation is critical to enhancing productivity and responding to the current world economic crisis.

She said that context in which international labour standards operate have changed fundamentally owing to socioeconomic challenges and developments, which has led governments to review their labour operating models to suit these peculiarities.

Daju spoke at the senior officers conference organised for the professional department of the ministry and its agencies with the theme, “Labour Administration in a Dwindling Economy: Issues, Challenges and Prospects.”

She noted that the socioeconomic challenges in Nigeria as a result of the removal of petrol subsidy has availed the Federal Government and the ministry by extension, an additional opportunity to redefine the role and working methods, as well as increase the profile of labour administrations as a key mechanism in crisis response.

A press statement signed by Labour Ministry’s Director, Press and Public Relations, Olajide Oshundun, quoted Daju as saying that for the ministry and its agencies to remain relevant and effective, there is a need to strengthen the role of key players in coordinating elements of national labour policy, vis a viz other critical government policies to achieve a holistic intervention towards achieving a healthy industrial climate.

“Furthermore, the new forms of employment relationships, owing to technology and artificial intelligence is a trend that we cannot shy away from if the future of work in Nigeria is to be safe guarded and the strategic objectives of the ministry realised,” she said.

Daju also noted that labour administration system cannot effectively thrive if operated in isolation and called for better inclusion within the public service so other critical programmes of government aimed at enhancing productivity in the service are mainstreamed into daily operations to ensure a holistic implementation.

Also speaking at the conference, the Director Inspectorate, Mrs Olaolu Olaitan, explained that today’s labour administration was operational in a rapidly changing environment characterised by dramatic economic, institutional and political transformations that had affected patterns of production, work organisation, employment structures and increased labour migration.

She said that these changes had also put government under pressure to reduce public spending whilst improving public service delivery adding to challenges labour administrators have to deal with. She added that to effectively improve quality of service depends largely on the coherence the National Labour Policy.

The Director stated that the objective of the conference was therefore to define ways to deepen labour administration services, especially in a dwindling economy to improve the well-being of those in the world of work.

Social partners of the ministry present at the event included representatives of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Nigeria Employer’s Consultative Association (NECA), among others.

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