Hello Nairalanders, I came across this thread on Job/vacancy section but wonder why it didn't make the front page. Maybe it was posted in the wrong section.

Nigeriayouths20:
Government cannot provide all the jobs in a country; they need the private sector to help boost the numbers of jobs around. In Nigeria, it's not that the private sector is not helping but the jobs created in the sector is not save or stable for the future of employees. The fault goes to the government that neglects the function of protecting employee's interest at the sector. Employee's face mass sacking, Layoff, exploitation and so on. The only benefactor in the sector is the owner. For Nigeria government to create more stable jobs in the country, they need to start tidying up the jobs in the private sector. Private sector jobs in the country shouldn't be part-time job or contract job. It is time to make them worthwhile jobs.
The first with the largest number of employees i will be discussing is Nigeria private school jobs. This sector of the economy holds 3.5 million- 4 million workers in which 99% of them are still seeking for a well paying and stable job. Employees of this labour waste years of their service on the job to keep paying bills like house rent, electricity and waters bills, child school fee(partially) and other little bills. They use an average of two years under an employer and a total average of 6 years in the sector. Some employees even spend 10 to 15 years at service with nothing to show for it. The only benefactor in the sector is the proprietor/owner.
Salaries in private schools/college differ in respect to state. In lagos, employees under the labour earns an average of 30 thousand naira monthly. 20 thousand naira in Oyo; 25 thousand naira in Port Harcourt; 10 thousand naira in Ondo, Osun, Ekiti and Kwara; and so on.

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Challenges employees are facing under the labour are underpayment, exploitation by their employers, lack of labour union to fight for their rights, their years in service are not insured and retirement plan is not available.
An instance is one Mrs. Mojisola X in Osun state who worked with a private school for fourteen and half years. She later resigned and opened a provision store believing the store will earn her a better life. She didn't receive any form of gratuity and pension on retirement. This is one out of the numerous occasions across the country.

To tidy up the jobs in the sector and protect employees interest, I will recommend these policies.
1) Minimum wage should be approved for private school workers
2) There should be an established labour union to protect the right of workers.
3) Compulsory pension plan insurance for every private school employee

Implication of the policies.
- If minimum wage is set for private school workers; for a private school to survive and meet up with the new operating cost, it will either increase school fees or admit more pupils/students. The policy is not directed at shutting down low cost school. but for low cost school to survive, they will need more pupil.
- When wages is set, many of these private schools with no adequate facilities will fold up due to inability to meet up with the new standard of operation and their pupil will be available for those in operation. So any low cost school with facilities will survive.
- It will standardized the schools in operation.
- Employees under the new labour will be well paid.
- The increase in fees and the shut down of many schools will increase pupils/student transfer from private schools to public schools which will force the government to recruit more teachers.
- The pension plans will guarantee regular benefit for employee at retirement.
- The pension plans will also provide employers with tool in retaining workers. That workers who value their retirement are more likely to stay with the employer.
- It will stabilize job in the sector.


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To tidy up the jobs in the sector and protect employees interest, I will recommend these policies.
1) Minimum wage should be approved for private school workers

Minimum wage is not realistic for employees of private schools. Putting these factors into consideration makes it impossible:
- Private schools don't have a common school fees parents pay for their wards . E.g. Private schools in Lagos, Abuja, Ph & Ogun state charge far above their counterparts in other states. Imagine having same minimum wage for employees of Private schools in Abuja and Ondo. Proprietors In Ondo won't have any profit in this case.

2) There should be an established labour union to protect the right of workers.

There is an existing Federal government body that is in place for this already.

3) Compulsory pension plan insurance for every private school employee

This is not a bad idea. But it's usually abused by new generation private school employees, as they mostly get the job to while away time and not to stay long being an employee to a private school. I.e. Majority of the graduates you see working in private schools (posts below HOD), only seek to work in private schools pending the time they have a "better job". In this case, having a pension plan issuance for employees that spend only few months or maximum a year won't favour the school owners. Because this will create a lot of pension plan for workers who have contributed little or nothing to the establishment, which may result to no gain for the school owners in the long-run.

Apparently, the writer is a communist or to be fair socialist.
I was reading with excitement initially on the assumption that the writer was going to make a goo d point.

Private schools have been the Savior of the Nigerian educational system or better still, the Southern Nigerian educational system. With their makeshift facilities they still provide way better quality of education than government institutions do.

You have made your point from the perspective of wages paid to private school teachers. Well state schools pay better wages and yet provide way lower quality if education. Isn't that enough proof that increased wages have very little bearing on the quality of education.