The Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment in Nigeria is a governmental body tasked with overseeing labor-related matters, promoting decent work, and ensuring social protection for workers across the country. Its primary objective is to create an enabling environment for employment generation, enhance labor productivity, and protect the rights and welfare of workers.
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Key Functions:
- Labor Regulation and Policy Formulation: The ministry is responsible for formulating labor laws, regulations, and policies that govern employment practices, industrial relations, and occupational health and safety. It sets standards to ensure fair labor practices, decent working conditions, and the protection of workers’ rights.
- Employment Generation: It develops strategies and programs to promote job creation, entrepreneurship, and skills development. The ministry works to address unemployment challenges by facilitating job matching, vocational training, and capacity-building initiatives.
- Industrial Relations: The ministry plays a pivotal role in fostering harmonious relations between employers and employees. It facilitates collective bargaining processes, resolves labor disputes, and promotes dialogue and cooperation among stakeholders in the labor market.
- Social Protection: It implements social protection programs and policies to support vulnerable groups, including workers in the informal sector, women, youth, persons with disabilities, and migrant workers. This includes initiatives such as social insurance schemes, pension programs, and support for informal sector workers.
- Occupational Health and Safety: The ministry promotes occupational health and safety standards to protect workers from workplace hazards, accidents, and occupational diseases. It conducts inspections, enforces safety regulations, and provides training and awareness-raising on workplace safety practices.
- International Labor Relations: It represents Nigeria in international labor organizations, conventions, and forums to promote cooperation, exchange best practices, and advocate for the rights and interests of Nigerian workers on the global stage.
Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment CONTACTS
- Head office: Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment Federal Secretariat Phase I, Shehu Shagari Way, Central Business District, Abuja, Nigeria.
- Phone: +234 9 523 8097
- Email: info@labour.gov.ng
- Website: www.labour.gov.ng
Some of the States and Zonal Offices are Listed Below:
- 38, Ubakala Street, Umuahia, Abia State
- Federal Secretariat, Yola, Adamawa State
- 4, Etim Ibanga Udosen Street, Off Barracks Road Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State
- 16 Dilibe Str, Amudo Village, Awka, Anambra State.
- Federal Secretariat, Bauchi, Bauchi State.
- N. U. T. Secretariat, Erepa Road, Yenegoa, Bayelsa State.
- Federal Secretariat, Makurdi, Benue State.
- Federal Secretariat Complex, Kano/Jos Road, Maiduguri, Borno State.
- No. 25 Barrack’s Road, Calabar, Cross River State.
- Federal Secretariat, Okpanam Road, Asaba, Delta State.
- 7 Pontius Ibeogu Street, Off 122a Road, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.
- Federal Secretariat, Aduwawa Benin City, Edo State.
- 73 Ajilosun Street, Near Phenrose Filling Station, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.
- Federal Secretariat Complex, Independence Layout, Enugu, Enugu State.
- Federal Secretariat, Federal Low Cost, Gombe, Gombe State.
- Federal Secretariat, Port- Harcourt Road, Owerri, Imo State.
- Federal Secretariat, Kiyawa Road, Dutse, Jigawa State.
- Federal Secretariat, Kaduna, Kaduna State.
- Federal Secretariat, Katsina Road, Kano, Kano State.
- Justice Bello Way, G.R.A. Roundabout- Katsina, Katsina State.
- Argungu Road, Benin Kebbi, Kebbi State.
- No. 1 Labour Office Road Adankolo, Lokoja, Kogi State.
- 1, Railway Road, Ilorin, Kwara State.
- No. 14 Ikoyi Road, Lagos
- 14B Shadall Street, Opposite Shadall Chalet, Lafia, Nasarawa state.
- Federal. Secretariat, Minna, Niger State.
- Federal. Secretariat, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
- Federal Secretariat, Igbatoro Rd, Akure, Ondo State.
- Kilometer 5, Abongan-Ibadan Road, Road Safety Area, Osogbo, Osun State.
- Federal. Secretariat, Ibadan, Oyo State.
- Federal. Secretariat, Tudunwada, Jos, Plateau State.
- Federal Secretariat Complex, Aba Road, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
- No.7 Dendo RoaD, Sokoto, Sokoto State.
- Jakada Street, Behind LCCN Church, Magwou. Jalingo, Taraba State.
- Federal Secretariat, Damaturu, Yobe State.
- J.B. Yakubu Road, Canteen Area, Gasau, Zamfara State.
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