Another employer has fallen foul of the government's crackdown on enforcing the National Minimum Wage.

An educationist, Pastor Joseph Ejenavi, yesterday condemned the proposed picketing of private schools by the striking teachers, saying this could result in confrontation.

A dramatic fall in the number of private sector employees paying into workplace pension schemes has been revealed.

HR professionals need to rethink the way they manage staff after a disaster or traumatic event, according to a leading psychiatrist.

Employment relations minister Pat McFadden this morning pledged to save HR professionals across the UK £1m per day in consultancy fees.

Trade union power in Europe could be boosted by the European Commission's plans for European Works Councils.

Stagnating job growth is threatening the success of a government-backed welfare-to-work programme - and high profile names have called on employers to help.

Awards recognising outstanding contributions made by employers and employees working with the Local Employment Partnership (LEP) were handed out to Tesco, Mariott Hotels and Debenhams this week.

A leading construction union has accused the government of complacency about workplace safety which is putting employees' lives at risk.

Employers have been urged to adopt a new code of practice launched to mark the 10th anniversary of landmark legislation designed to protect staff who blow the whistle on organisations' wrongdoing.

Vodafone HR director Matthew Brearly will get involved in a new kind of recruitment activity this month as he helps to select external applicants to work in a charity of their choice.

MPs have received spoof retirement letters as the Employers Forum on Age (EFA) ramps up its campaign to scrap the default retirement age.

Many private schools in Kano State were yesterday picketed by officials of the Nigeria Labour Congress in compliance with the ongoing nationwide strike by the Nigeria Union of Teachers.

IT is logical that teachers are on strike. Equally logically is the scant attention their action that has shut down public schools - primary and secondary - will get.

The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has directed the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS) to embark on a nationwide strike from July 7.

Basic education has once again been crippled across the country as public primary and secondary schools have been closed down.

Federal government yesterday warned striking teachers against picketing private schools, saying it will not tolerate any breach of law and order.

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) said yesterday that it did not at any time ask the federal government to fix salaries for teachers in the services of state governments and described as " mis leading" the comments of the

Nigeria Labour Congress has called on both the National Assembly and Federal government to wade into the ongoing strike embarked upon by teachers nationwide before the educational sector is completely paralysed in the country.

Minister of State for Education, Dr. Jerry Agada, has debunked allegations that the federal government was deliberately insensitive to the demands of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) during its three-day warning strike which forced them to embark on the