Govt, employers charged on decent work conditions for Nigerians

As Nigerian workers join their counterparts worldwide to demand decent work environment, the Association of Banks, Insurance and other Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI) has called on workers to put concerted effort to achieve decent work conditions in public and private sectors.
ASSBIFI president, Comrade Olusoji Salako, while addressing a special conference on Decent Work Day celebration, organised by his association at Airport Hotel, Ikeja, said that a series of activities had been put in place by the association  to get the government to recognise the Day for Decent Work.
He said: “We need more actions on the World Day for Decent Work for this year as it  aims at tackling precarious work, deepening trend towards casual, temporary and insecure jobs, often with little legal protection.  This is because Nigerians in the work force are mostly affected by the high rate of anti-workers  policies that have affected their incomes and earning potential  as a result of  lack of rights at work, lack of job creation policies, social protection and social dialogue involving unions and employers, as this is crucial to turning the Nigerian economy around and generating the tax revenues for governments to tackle the fiscal situation.
“We are looking to the government to take the steps needed and to stop failed policies which put the vested interests of banks and finance ahead of people’s lives and livelihood. People’s rights at work are under attack as never  before, and the three tiers of government in Nigeria  lack the vision and commitment to fix a global economy which is failing working people,” he maintained.