Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2000, published 89th ILC session (2001)

Protection of Wages Convention, 1949 (No. 95) - Nigeria (Ratification: 1960)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which reads as follows:

Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes from the Government’s report that measures are yet to be taken to protect the wage payment of homeworkers, who are presently excluded from the coverage of the Labour Decree of 1974 (Article 2(2) of the Convention) and to ensure that the wages are paid directly to the worker (Article 5). It hopes that the Government will soon be able to indicate the progress made on these points.