- Mandate of the Department:
- Conduct labour inspection services to industrial, agricultural and commercial workplaces to enforce the National Labour Standards;
- Enforce the National Policy on Child Labour and its National Action Plan on the Elimination of Child Labour in Nigeria;
- Supplies technical information and advice to employers and workers concerning the most effective way to comply with Labour Act and related legislation
- Collates and analyze information needed to preventive mediation, with a view to nipping in the bud, potential areas of conflict between labour and management;
- Educates and builds capacity of professional Officers of the Ministry and Employers on labour administration and emerging trends in the world of work;
- Ensures fair labour practices through intervention and handling of labour complaints;
- Survey and monitor Labour Health Areas to ensure compliance to labour standards and protection of workers.
- Responsible for gender issues in the ministry; and mainstreaming and coordination of gender related activities in work places and in other ministries.
- Serves as advisor to labour matters to state government;
- Responsible for the administrative, advisory, operational and development (capital projects) matters related to Labour Administration in all the States of the Federation and FCT, Abuja.
- Serves as secretariat of the National Steering Committee on Child Labour (NHC)
- Serves as secretariat to National Housing Facilitation Council (NHC);
- Serves as secretariat to Senior Officers Conference of the Ministry and its parastatals; and
- Serves as co -secretariat to Alliance 8.7 in Nigeria.
Recent Activities of the Department:
- Development and Validation of the National Reporting on the Elimination of Child Labour in Nigeria;
- National Launch of Alliance 8.7 in collaboration with International Labour Organization;
- Accelerating Action on Eradication of Child labour in Africa- “Accel Africa Projects” on Elimination of Child Labour in Cocoa and Artisanal Gold Mining in Ondo and Niger States respectively;
- On-going efforts on the ratification of ILO Convention 189 on Domestic Work and mainstreaming of its Recommendations 201 into national laws;
- Step down national capacity building on ECOWAS Strategic Framework for Strengthening Child Protection Actors to Prevent and Response to Child Labour, Abuses, Violence and Exploitations.
- Flag of Symbolic Integrated Labour Inspection Services by the Honourable Minister and Staff of Inspectorate at Port Harcourt
- Flag of Symbolic Integrated Labour Inspection Services by the Honourable Minister of State and Staff of Inspectorate at Lagos and Lokoja
- Permanent Secretary Working Visits to four (4) Zonal Labour Offices of Lagos, Port Harcourt, Enugu and Kaduna.
- The on-going development of Labour Inspection Framework and its Guidelines for the protection of workers in the informal economy against unfair labour practices.
- On-going review of statutory inspection tools and Ministry of General Instructions (MLGI)
- On-going sensitization/ monitoring visits to small and medium scale enterprises in Abuja and its environs on internalization of gender policies on their operational processes and procedures.