FINANCE minister Dr. Ezra Suruma has asked the trade unions to forward names of people to be included on the board of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF).

East African nationals are inching closer and closer to full integration, when Tanzania last week scrapped its hitherto strict policy regarding residence status for non-nationals.

Work permits, a major hindrance to free movement of labour within the East African Community, will soon be a thing of the past after Tanzania last week became the last country in the region to lift restrictions on the right of residence.

BY INCLUDING the year 2010 in the next round of public service pay talks, the government could avert a crippling national strike in the middle of the 2010 Soccer World Cup, says a legal expert.

Outsourcing of key jobs in an organisation is not a way of denying government tax revenues as outsourced workers too pay relevant taxes to the various tiers of government in the country. The Managing Director of Resources Intermediaries Limited, Mr. Soji Olawoye made this clarification in a chat with THISDAY in Lagos recently. He also emphasised that workers would fare better and as such perform ...

Skills-starved Harare City Council has frozen the recruitment of new staff members pending the submission of a manpower audit report by management to the full council.

File Number Traffic/27/2005 gathers dust at the offices of Fida Kenya. It hasn't been opened since 2005 after its subject went missing.

Retired president Daniel arap Moi has told Kenyan men that their traditional role as controllers of public affairs was coming to an end.

Unemployment over the years has posed a big challenge in Nigeria, and in other African countries. And for those who get employed, they are very loth to lose them. This has caused many employers to treat their workers as mere objects.

A bank has launched a teachers loans scheme in south Nyanza to enable them advance their education.

A Nairobi vehicle dealer is engaged in an industrial dispute with employees over what they call illegal sacking but which the employer terms as "normal."

The Namibia Airports Company (NAC) and the Namibia Public Workers Union (Napwu) reached an agreement on Thursday evening, in an eleventh-hour attempt to avert a potentially damaging strike by workers at Namibia's airports.

Government training institutes will be upgraded to accommodate the large number of civil servants who need to advance their skills, President Kibaki has disclosed.

WHEN trade union officials threatened to hold a one million workers' demonstration in Kampala demanding the sacking of National Social Security Fund (NSSF) management and board members, many wondered how that number would be mobilised. Of the workforce in the country only 286,000 are NSSF contributors.

GOVERNMENT will not allow employers to run businesses without proper safety and health management systems, the Minister of Labour, Public Service and Social Welfare, Cde Nicholas Goche, has said.

Companies in Zimbabwe should introduce safety measures at workplaces to reduce occupational accidents that result in people losing lives and limbs, the National Social Security Authority said on Wednesday.

ZANU PF is facing serious financial problems amid reports that it has been battling to pay its 500-plus workers since March.

THE interdicted principal assistant town clerks of KCC, Steven Higobero and Godfrey Kisekka, have been accused of approving an over payment for the incomplete administrative block for Makindye Division.

A career guidance manual to help students make correct career choices is a must, President Yoweri Museveni has said.

A TOTAL of 51 Ugandans are going to work as guards in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The jobs were secured by Two Niles Public Relations Agency.

Lecturers at the four colleges of education are back in the spotlight, this time with a damning threat of "no salary increases, no examinations for learners".

The Social Security Commission (SSC) is considering appointing a consultant to research on how the long overdue National Pension Fund (NPF) would be implemented, the Economist has established.

The government will introduce the Labour Act next month, Minister of Labour and Social Welfare Immanuel Ngatjizeko has said.

The Health Workers Group within the Public Health Sector has distanced itself from what is alleged to be a newly formed "Health Workers Association of the Nation (HWAN), which is aligning itself to the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

THERE is no reason whatsoever why children of war veterans should not be considered for whatever assistance, be it either by the Ministry of Veterans Affairs or any other Government agency, as a special category of people needing consideration for help like any other special category group including old age pensioners, orphans and vulnerable children.