Federal Gov’t, Stakeholders Revalidate Workplace Policy To Bridge Gender Gaps

The national authorities and cardinal societal partners yesterday revalidated the World of Work Gender Policy, with renewed commitments to adjacent sex gaps, tackle workplace favoritism and beforehand equity successful the labour sector.

At the lawsuit successful Abuja, some organised labour, employers’ associations, civilian nine organisations and improvement partners including the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and Oxfam agreed that with faithful implementation, the argumentation would dismantle systemic barriers to women’s information successful the economy, empower susceptible groups and fortify nationalist competitiveness.

Declaring the lawsuit open, manager of the inspectorate department, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Mrs Olaolu Olaitan, said the re-validation was aimed astatine strengthening provisions successful the draught argumentation to bespeak Nigeria’s realities and planetary standards.

“Today’s gathering is simply a continuation of our corporate travel towards ensuring that the Nigerian workplace is inclusive, equitable, and escaped from each forms of violence, harassment, and discrimination.

“The National World of Work Gender Policy represents a milestone successful our nationalist efforts to mainstream sex into labour administration, inspection and workplace practices. It is not conscionable a argumentation document; it is simply a instrumentality that volition assistance signifier a much conscionable and productive satellite of enactment for some men and women.

“It reaffirms the information that sex equality successful the satellite of enactment is not the work of authorities unsocial but a shared committedness that requires the progressive information of each stakeholders, employers, workers, and civilian societies,” she said.

She stressed that sex equality successful the satellite of enactment indispensable beryllium seen arsenic a shared responsibility.

In her remarks, manager of the ILO state bureau for Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Liaison Office for ECOWAS, Vanessa Phala, described the argumentation arsenic a historical milestone that consolidates Nigeria’s enactment successful promoting sex equality astatine work.

She noted Nigeria’s ratification of ILO Conventions 100, 111, and 190 arsenic impervious of its committedness to ending favoritism and harassment astatine work.

“These commitments spot Nigeria astatine the forefront of the planetary question to guarantee workplaces escaped from discrimination, violence, and harassment and to beforehand adjacent accidental for all,” she said.

Also speaking, John Makina, the Country Director of Oxfam successful Nigeria, stressed the policy’s value successful transforming workplaces and advancing sex justice.

“The argumentation we are validating contiguous has the imaginable to alteration Nigeria’s workplaces into spaces that adjacent the sex wage gap, clasp diversity, beforehand inclusion, and safeguard decent enactment for all”, Makina said.

He emphasized Oxfam’s committedness to supporting Nigeria’s efforts done advocacy, method input and collaboration with authorities and civilian society.

Representatives of the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA), the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) of Nigeria besides reaffirmed their committedness to ensuring the argumentation translates into applicable workplace reforms that volition warrant fairness and productivity.