FG urged to stop casualization of workers
The federal government has been urged to redirect its policies towards curtailing casualization or contract staffing employment in the country.
Speaking during the third quadrennial national delegates' conference, of members of Chemicals and Non metallic Product, held in Ilorin, the national president of the group, Comrade Segun David, described casual work as often temporary, without job security.
The labour leader, said the issue can be checkmated through collaboration with the organized labour, and the civil society organizations.
He said the growth in irregular work has changed the nature of employment from a labour relationship to a commercial relationship ,with the worker taking all the risks.
Comrade David explained that the owners of the business wants to cut costs by all means , adding that the human capital is treated as mere robots.
He also appealed to government to check the high rate of unemployment in the country.
Comrade David maintained that the challenges of National Development is to manage the economy and promote job-led growth rather than the present situation of jobless growth.
The labour leader advised the present administration to consider various windows of opportunities that will be attractive to business environment and encourage
industrialization for the organized private sector to partner in the provision and expansion of infrastructures at all levels to enable it rise to the occasion and drive the process of employment generation.END
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