Utoni Nujoma – Windhoek Observer

28 Feb

Labour Minister wants SSC workers to improve performance

ObserverNational NewsLabour Minister wants SSC workers to improve performance, Utoni Nujoma, “Promotion of the Welfare of the People”

Martin Endjala The Minister of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Creation Utoni Nujoma has appealed to the Social Security Commission (SSC) employees to embrace their duties and deliver services to the masses as mandated in a timely manner. He said this during the SSC 28th-anniversary celebration last week under the theme “We are because of others’’, where he said that social security is both a human right and a socioeconomic necessity, that the right to social security is recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and many other international instruments. “I, therefore, appeal to each of you to execute…

27 Jul

Schools shut for strike ballot…voting over two days

ObserverNational NewsNAPWU and NANTU, Schools shut for strike ballot, Utoni Nujoma

Tujoromajo Kasuto and O’Brien Simasiku The Ministry of Education Arts and Culture has closed schools for tomorrow and Friday to allow civil servants to take part in a vote to decide on whether to strike after the government, NAPWU and NANTU, reached a deadlock in wage negotiations. The government states that it has no fiscal space to manoeuvre to increase cash salaries, while unions demand raises in line with skyrocketing costs of living. The transparent balloting process is set to begin tomorrow, July 28th, and will last until July 29th, 2022, at 150 polling stations across the country in places…

23 Jun

Utoni requests ILO aid in employment creation

ObserverNational NewsILO, Utoni Nujoma, Utoni requests ILO aid in employment creation

Staff Writer Namibia has requested the International Labour Organisation, ILO for assistance to create jobs. Minister of Labour, Industrial Relations, and Employment Creation, Utoni Nujoma made the call at the 110th ILO conference in Geneva. Nujoma says the assistance by ILO will help Namibia to make a tangible impact in employment creation which may bring hope to the youth. Namibia’s development has been severely constrained by structural unemployment. However, strategies for socio and economic development with some significant progress, including in the areas of education, social protection and infrastructural development have been implemented, but the area of employment creation continues…

25 Mar

Cost of living, affordability to be considered in setting minimum wage

ObserverUncategorisedaffordability to be considered in setting minimum wage, Cost of living, Utoni Nujoma

Tujoromajo Kasuto Utoni Nujoma, Minister of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Creation, today received the report from the Wages Commission on a National Minimum Wage, which will only be made public until it has been endorsed by the Cabinet. The minister will scrutinize, study and compare the reports compliance with legal requirements and the viability of its recommendations before making any decision with Cabinet’s approval. Following these processes, if a national minimum wage order is decided on, it will be gazetted. The Commission was appointed on 18th February 2021, with broad Terms of Reference of the Commission to investigate all…