The Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) has hired a Norwegian company to train its staff.
In an effort to stem more trouble from workers of the Nigerian Telecommunications plc. (NITEL) who have been staging demonstrations in front of the head office of the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE), demanding for payment of their 16 months salary arrears, the Director General of BPE, Dr. Christopher Anyanwu, has directed that the commencement of the payment of the salary arrears swung into ...
WHILE it is lamentable that a million jobs in SA were lost this year, it is nevertheless commendable that trade union and big business leaders are applying their minds to the manifest problems posed by the ongoing phenomenon of job losses.
As part of moves to empower and facilitate educational development in Kaduna State, the administration of Governor, Arc. Muhammad Namadi Sambo has concluded plans to introduce housing scheme for teachers in the state primary and post-primary schools.
Barely 24 hours after the National President of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Mallam Abdulwaheed Omar called on Oyo State Government to implement the Teachers Salary Scale (TSS) for teachers in its primary and secondary schools, a group of teachers in the state under the auspices of the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS) yesterday dissociated itself from the NUT initiative.
SOUTH African workers will not be affected by 10000 job cuts planned by ArcelorMittal, with the company saying steel production at its local plants is on the increase to meet a rise in demand.
CHARTERED accountant is the most sought-after business designation in SA by a considerable margin, according to new research carried out last week by the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (Saica).
Twenty people from different weaving cooperatives across the country yesterday concluded a ten-day workshop in Kigali on banana fibre handcrafts.
A row is simmering at the Dock Workers Union with members demanding that the executive board be sacked.
The Barrister Dan Nwanyanwu-led national executives of the Labour Party (LP) were recently given a second term to pilot the affairs of the party for another four years during the party's third national convention which held at the NLC Labour House.
THE National Labour Commission has subpoenaed the Managing Director (MD) of the Gocrest Security Company, Mr. George Aggudey, who is also a former presidential candidate of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), to send his written response in a raging labour case, in which fourteen ex-workers of the company had dragged him to the Commission.
THE Government has released more than K20 billion to pay outstanding teachers' housing allowances throughout the country.
THE MEMBER of Parliament (MP) for Bosomtwe, Mr. Simon Osei-Mensah, has urged the government to pay cocoa farmers a bonus of GH¢80 per tonne for the 2008/2009 main crop, and not the GH¢40, as indicated in the 2010 budget estimates.
CHITUNGWIZA Municipality workers yesterday downed their tools and besieged the council's head office demanding to be paid November salaries and 2009 bonuses three weeks after their pay date.
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has assured scientists in universities and those working abroad of improved remuneration starting next financial year, if they return to work in Uganda.
The news that an employee of Mulago Hospital working with the anatomical pathology department jumped to his death from the 6th floor, must be an eye opener not only for Mulago, but other hospitals and work places.
The University of Dar es Salaam Computing Centre (UCC) yesterday launched a two-year project on capacity building on the effective use and management of information and communication technology in the public sector.
The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) should comply with the Federal Government's modalities of implementing the Consolidated Tertiary Institution's Salary Structure(CONTISS) and jettison its own guideline which is causing disharmony among polytechnics, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics(SSANIP) has said.
The management and student of Pacesetters Academy, Abuja, have donated food items and clothing to retired military pensioners in the state.
Former headmistress of Corona Group of Schools, Mrs. Adetoun Fagbayi-Mohammed has stressed the need for teachers to show love to pupils as it makes them learn faster.
A lot of criticism has trailed the mode of staff recruitment, transfer and administration of the staff of Adamawa State Polytechnic in the last few months.
Hundreds of Ugandan engineers have left the country to seek greener pastures abroad creating a vacuum in the construction sector, Daily Monitor has learnt. Prof Jackson Mwakali, the chairperson of the Engineers Registration Board says half of the 649 registered engineers have left the country in search for greener pastures.
There are indications that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) may back the much talked about deregulation plan of the downstream sector of the oil and gas sector by the Federal Government.
A total of nine investment projects worth Rwf 26.2 billion were registered in November 2009 with expectations of generating of 241 jobs, the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) has said.
After a decade of the Nigeria Labour Congress's opposition against the deregulation of the downstream sector of the economy, it may have bowed to the policy due to a strategy of alienation of the group from its social partners by the Federal Government even as it maintained that its resistance of the policy was in the best interest of the working people and citizens in general.
