Nigeria's experience with "jobless growth" - a phenomenon in which economic growth does not translate to more jobs - can be addressed through a value chain linked to production in the economy, experts have advised.
ALTHOUGH SA's employment market is under severe strain, employers can still find top talent.
There are strong indications that another fuel scarcity is imminent across the country as members of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) have threatened to stop products supply across the country.
It has been accepted that the intractable problem of poverty in Africa is a consequence of failure of leadership in the continent, affecting almost every facet of our lives as black-skinned humans.
THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said yesterday it would act as friend of the court in the class action lawsuit brought against South African companies that collaborated with the apartheid regime in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit when the matter resumed next year.
Reaching compromise between the social partners in the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) has become more difficult due to the re-emergence of the "adversarialism" of the past, Nedlac executive director Herbert Mkhize said recently.
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has approved automatic employment in the federal civil service for 32 selected corps members from across the nation who discharged their primary assignment meritoriously during their service year.
NATIONAL Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) workers have called on the federal government to approach the controversial deregulation of the country's petroleum industry with caution.
THERE are strong indications that another fuel scarcity is imminent across the country as members of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) have threatened to shut products supply across the country to protest alleged refusal by the managements of Mobile Telecommunications (MTEL) and Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) to pay close to N2 billion debt to their employers ...
The Minister of Presidential Affairs and Public Administration, Ethel Motsumi, has hit the nail on the head when she publicly voiced concern about the embarrassing indebtedness of public servants.
The latest workers' upheavals befalling the concessioned Tanzania Railways, who are demanding for their unpaid monthly salaries and to terminate the Indian railways company (RITES) management contract, is an eye opener that our governments need to look inward for certain business solutions.
The Management of the Intercontinental Bank Monday served sack letters to no fewer than 1,500 of its workers. However, the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, protested the retrenchment, but did not disclose what its next line of action would be.
South African health care professionals are endangering the health of the country’s large foreign population by routinely denying health care and treatment to thousands of asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. South Africa’s foreign-born residents, who are particularly vulnerable to disease and injury, face xenophobic violence as ...
NEWS editor of The Sunday News, Dumisani Sibanda is now the new president of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists after he beat Herald Features Editor Isdore Guvamombe in an election that produced surprise inclusions.
The UN Acting Police Commissioner, Gautam Sawang has appealed to officers of the Liberian National Police (LNP) to devote themselves to their duties and to the service of their communities. Mr. Sawang made these remarks during a ceremony to hand over the Jacob Town Police Station to the Government of Liberia in Jacob Town, Paynesville Community in Montserrado County.
With the much publicised National Pension Fund in the pipeline, the future of current private pension fund organisations is uncertain. This is because the final structure of, and membership to the National Pension Fund remains unknown.
Diamond Trading Company Botswana (DTC Botswana) said this week it has signed a new collective labour agreement with the Botswana Diamond Sorters and Valuators Union (BDSVU, DTC Botswana Branch), a deal which it said will facilitate the development and growth of a new chapter in employment relationship between the two parties.
Adamawa State governor, Air Admiral Murtala Nyako (rtd), has spurned allegation that there was a yawing rift between him and some local government chairmen in the state over health workers' salaries.
The chairman of University of Ibadan chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Dr. Ademola Aremu, has condemned the authorities of the Olabisi Onabanjo University {OOU} Ago Iwoye in Ogun State over the retrenchment of 280 academic and non-teaching staff.
AFTER going around the Karas Region for about a month, I am still battling to understand the logic of job allocations by big companies in the south. Practically all jobs - in the fishing, mining, the grape projects along the Orange River and elsewhere - are occupied by people from other areas. There are virtually no southern indigenes in these industries.
One of the major challenges facing Tunisia is the employment of university graduates. Even during the global economic crisis, the job market in Tunisia has witnessed a marked improvement in 2009.
Leaflets surfaced in Dar es Salaam yesterday urging daladala drivers to go on strike to protest their "mistreatment" by employees of a firm hired to enforce public transport rules.
Commercial banks delay in remitting pension money into pensioners' accounts, pensioners under the Customs, Immigrations and Prisons have said.
As the crisis at the Lagos State University (LASU) lingers, Governor Babatunde Fashola has appealed to the striking lecturers to go back to the classrooms as their singular act is affecting not just the school but the larger society.
MEDICAL doctors and allied workers in the medical profession have been reminded of the danger their action or inaction posed to patients in the practice of their profession.
