Rep to criminalise casualisation, outsourcing of jobs


The House of Representatives on Tuesday moved to criminalise the rampant cases of casualisation and outsourcing of jobs in the country, passing for second reading a bill to stop the practice.

The House expressed concern that employers of labour, especially those in banking, telecom as well as oil and gas sector often resort to casualisation and outsourcing of jobs, thereby making Nigerians slave workers in their own country.

Organised Labour as well as officials of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, led by the Minister, Senator Chris Ngige have been in the forefront of the crusade to end casualisation and outsourcing in the country which forms one of the new conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) as adopted during the centenary celebration of the world body |||READ MORE …



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