The Relationship Between Employers' Organisations and the State in Nigeria

3.3 Contribute to the maintenance of workplace welfare facilities in accordance with workplace welfare procedures.

P6 Explain the duty of public services to provide equality of service to all citizens

6. Briefly explain the benefits of making sure equality and diversity procedures are followed in a business environment. Your answer should include one benefit for the employer, one benefit for the employee and one benefit for the overall organisation.

Assure employee health and job security by providing employees with a job to continue working as a

Great Britain is currently recovering from one of the worst economic periods since the 1930s. Everyone is feeling the pinch. As companies try to compete in this new economic environment, and the government tries to reduce national debt, many industries are finding themselves in situations where they must find ways to improve employee relations on an industry wide basis. In the past, employee relations formed an important part of the competitive advantage for individual firms. After falling out of favor for some time, trade unions are now becoming more popular as a way of bolstering entire sectors of the economy or industries. This research will explore the role of employee relations in both unitary and pluralistc environments within certain industries.

(a) Provide goods and services to its members to enable them to attain increased income, savings, investments, productivity, and purchasing power, and promote among themselves equitable distribution of net surplus through maximum utilization of economies of scale, cost-sharing and risk-sharing;

To establish a democratic government that is based on the will of the people and ensure that all people are protected by the law;

Due to Nigeria’s corrupt government, their citizens are deprived of the steadly revenue that the country makes thru the oil companies operating in their country. Most profits are taken from the public and are kept held with Nigerian officials. People in the Nigeria are currently living in extreme poverty. Government officials are taking all of the profits made from the sales of oil leads to a horrible infrastructure. Nigerian citizens are unable to have access to electricity and water. On another note, CIA World Factbook states that the literacy rate in Nigeria is currently seventy-two percent and females at fifty percent (CIA Work Factbook). Due to the corruption of government officials, making it hard for Nigeria to create growth within

Five years into the implementation of the policy, a number of successes have been recorded by the NCDMB including the attraction of over $500m foreign direct investment (FDI), the creation of thousands of new jobs and the full domiciliation of fabrication and construction activities. Moreover, about 87% of the total oil and gas contracts in the industry were claimed to have been won by indigenous oil companies (NCDMB, 2013; Africa Centre for Energy Policy, 2014). Other areas of achievement include the Nigerian content values said to have been captured through the Nigerian Content Compliance Certificate (NCCC) issued to operators/contractors. It was reported that during the periods 2010-2012 out of the $27.029bn contract values awarded $19.157bn were captured as Nigerian content. Furthermore, training expenditure of $110.8million with employment and training man-hours of 4.84million hours were also retained as Nigerian content, signifying the extent of the board’s ability to influence the domiciliation of oil and gas activities (NCDMB Annual Performance Report, 2012). The board was also said to be strategizing to enhance the ownership, manning and maintenance of onshore and offshore drilling rigs as well as marine vessels

Nigeria is unique and embellished with a very rich culture and diversities. Because of the multi-ethnic and socio-cultural background that Nigeria is known for, the work environment in this setting is still far from what the western organizational system operates in. Beliefs, ethnic background, stereotypic way of work ethics and level of exposure seems to all play a key role in the way employers, managers would want their employees to engage in the task assigned to them.

To maintain effective workforce that helps create productive and sustainable working opportunities attracting national labor.

Others include: to identify obstacles to patronage of Made in Nigeria products with a view to proffering solutions; and to complement the Federal Government`s economic recovery and growth plan.

12. Stability of tenure of personnel. A stable environment is important to maximize the productivity of managers and employees.

In ordinary common usage, trade union is understood as the organization of workers formed to protect the interests of its members. However, the legal definition as we shall see shortly is not as expansive as that. In Nigeria the principal legislation regulating trade unionism which is the Trade Union Act (the Act) requires that a trade union must be registered before it can carry out any of the purposes for which it was established. The questions that naturally arise here are how constitutional is the requirement for compulsory registration of a trade union before it can lawfully carry out its functions? Can the Registrar of trade union refuse to grant an application for registration? If yes, under what circumstance, and if

(b) That the ownership and control of the material resources of the community are so distributed as best to sub serve the common good.