The Management and staff of Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies (MINILS) in Ilorin, Kwara state, have been commended for promoting workplace industrial harmony through enhanced training and capacity building for Workers, Employers, and Government Officials in Labour and Industrial Relations, as contained in the Institution’s enabling Act.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Muhammadu Maigari Dingyadias gave this commendation while receiving the “State of the Institute” report submitted by the Director General of the Institute, Comrade Issa AREMU in Abuja.
The report indicated that notwithstanding a limited budget, MINILS had between January and November 2024 impacted over two thousand (2000) participants from both the private and public sectors of the Nigerian economy through training, development, and capacity-building activities with its annual training windows run by the five core departments of Trade Union Education, Labour Management Relations, Academic and Distance Learning programs, Entrepreneurial Development, and Social Protection.
According to the report, a total of 35 internal and external on-site and online Regular seminars and 21 In-plant/Tailor-made courses have been mounted for Trade Unions, Organized Private Sector firms, and Ministries, Departments, and Agencies of Government at all levels from almost all the geopolitical zones with labour market subjects that include, Labour laws and Employment Regulations, Organizing and Leadership Skills, Grievance and Conflict Resolution, Work Ethics and Values.
In addition, participants from the six geopolitical zones of the country attended the 47 training programmes implying that the MINILS has delivered on its national mandate of ensuring that participants enhance their competency, enable organizations to raise their productivity levels, and maintain cordial labour-management relations skills through social dialogue and collective bargaining which has, in turn, minimized avoidable strikes by unions and lockout by employers and governments.
The major highlight of the report is the MINILS Cost of Living Market Survey of February 2024 studies and analysis, which served as resource material for the peaceful negotiations of the 2024 National Minimum Wage by organized labor and the Federal government.
While commending MINILS for exceeding the deliverable target of 1,250 participants mark in 2024, the Labour Minister Alhaji Muhammadu Maigari Dingyadias noted that many labour disputes are still preventable through education with qualified scholars in labour relations adding that MINILS like other agencies deserved adequate funding to align with the reform agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The Minister and Acting Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mr. John Nyamali commended the Institute for reviving the annual Labour Summit.
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