Plea to abolish new pension scheme
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A group of government employees and teachers affiliated to Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) Abolishment Movement on Friday staged a day-long hunger strike pressing to revoke new pension scheme.
The protest was led by its district coordinator K. Muniyandi, who said that the protest was staged to remind the present government that it had promised twice to repeal the CPS. “Former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, in 2016, announced in the well of the Assembly that her government will revoke CPS and constituted a committee to look into it. However, two years after the panel submitted its report, the State government has neither made the details of the report public nor kept its promise,” he said.
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There are various laws governing employment-related matters in
Nigeria. Some of these employment laws include the Nigerian Labour
Act, the Pensions Act, the Industrial Training Act, Employee
Compensation Act, Trade Unions Act, among few others. In this
write-up, we will briefly the impact of some of these laws on
employment matters in Nigeria.
The Labour Act
The Nigerian Labour Act 1971 is the principal law that governs
employment-related matters and the relationship between an employer
and employee in Nigeria. The Act uses the word workers