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The Federal Government and social partners have commenced the harmonisation and validation of reviewed labour laws of the country.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige said this at a Tripartite Harmonisation and Validation reviewed labour laws meeting on Thursday in Abuja.
This is according to a statement signed by Mr Charles Akpan, the Deputy Director, Press and Public Relations in the ministry.
The social partners participating in tripartite harmonisation and validation meetings are the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Nigeria Employers Consultative Assembly (NECA), National Assembly and the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
Ngige said the reviewed labour bills would be validated at the meeting and sent to the Federal Executive Council (FEC) for approval.
Ngige said afterwards the council would direct the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice to transmit the reviewed labour laws to the National Assembly for passage.
”The bills include the Labour Standards Bill to repeal the Labour Act, CAP L1, LFN, 2004 and the Collective Labour Relations Bill to repeal the Trade Union Act CAP T14 and T15 LFN, 2004, Trade Disputes Act, CAP T8 and T9, Trade Union Affiliation, and Trade Union Essential Services,”he said.
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