The meeting in the instance of Minister of Labour and Employment Dr Chris Ngige to resolve the industrial disputes between labour and the Kaduna State Government have agreed to set up a 10 membersBi-partite committee.
The committee according to a Memorandum of Understanding, resolved that the committee membership include Head of Civil Service of Kaduna state as Chairman and five other representative from the state government and three representative of the NLC.
“The meeting agreed that all the listed issues fall within the ambit of redundancy therefore, it was resolved that the principle of redundancy as stated in section 20 of Labour Act, Cap L 1 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria (LFN) should apply.
“The meeting also recognized that the current impasse was caused by communication gap between the State Government and NLC occasioned by both the local chapter and even the Kaduna State Government Officials.
“In view of the foregoing, the meeting resolved to constitute a ten (10) man Bi-partite Committee comprising six (6) representatives of State Government and three (3) officials of the NLC to engage further with the objective of reverting with a work plan on how to integrate the provision of section 20 of the Labour Act CAP L1 LFN 2004 to resolve the impasse between the State Government and the NLC.
“The meeting also resolved that the Committee should have as Chairman, the Head of Service of the Kaduna State Government and assisted by a Deputy National President of the NLC.
“The committee is expected to revert with the work plan for peaceful resolution of all issues in contention to the Honourable Minister of Labour and Employment by Tuesday 25th May, 2021.
“The work plan is to itemize the structure and sub-structure in the State and Local Government of their activities, time of commencement and envisaged final tenure of the Committee or make recommendations if in its wisdom it thinks the Committee should be a Permanent Standing Committee.
“In conclusion, it was agreed that there shall be no further industrial action on these issues and no worker shall be victimised on account of his or her participation in the industrial action.”
Blueprint reports that NLC five days warning strike grounded business activities in the state from Monday May 17, 2021 over the sack of over 4000 workers by the Kaduna state government.
