I have studied the issue of contract job in nigeria and can't help than to conclude that it is indeed a modern day slavery in disguise...a situation where the labour force is turned to mere commodity where companies/individuals act as middle man between employer and employee at the expence of the employee. In almost all big establishments, you will find out that there are two differnt type of workers; the real staffs and the contract staffs and if you belong to the second type, your take home pay is only a percentage of the first set of workers. The painfull aspect of the story is that these contract staff are made to do most of the work...NLs., what is your take on this topic?.....

Alexk2: I have studied the issue of contract job in nigeria and can't help than to conclude that it is indeed a modern day slavery in disguise...a situation where the labour force is turned to mere commodity where companies/individuals act as middle man between employer and employee at the expence of the employee. In almost all big establishments, you will find out that there are two differnt type of workers; the real staffs and the contract staffs and if you belong to the second type, your take home pay is only a percentage of the first set of workers. The painfull aspect of the story is that these contract staff are made to do most of the work...NLs., what is your take on this topic?.....

Its a simple case study of the classic, Monkey dey work, baboon dey chop .. I've been there.. Its simply frustrating! You do all the hard work, with nothing significant to show for it . The middle men go smiling to the bank, whereas your own heart go dey cut anytime you receive alert . But wetin man go do nau?

It is nothing butslavery indeed in the name of job.i can't but agree with you it is another ill if the society that promotes wickedness against it's citizens.The national assembly will doi itself more good by passing a law to prosecute proponents of this wicked and dastardly act.

@alolatee, that is if there hands are clean my guy....passing law that will banned these middle men will go a long way to put a stop to it but i'm sure itz not all that needs to be done....'Man know man' also fall indirectly in these category.

the petroleum industry bill will change that hopefully. It will create more vacancies and increased pay.

Honestly ppl should stop complaining about contract jobs. It is what it is, a contract. I'd like to think that you knew what yo were getting into before you did it and you were not forced to do it. If you go from being unemployed with zero income to being barely employed with peanuts,its a crawl in the positive direction.
That being said,companies too need to know that quality comes at a good price,if you can't pay people right don't expect the best.
And since the unemployed community in Nigeria grows by the micro second, an individual who doesn't wanna settle for a contract job has got to pray hard,score the best and win job wars.

[quote
author=jacobscros]the petroleum industry bill will change that
hopefully. It will create more vacancies and increased pay.[/quote]


'hopefully' it will when passed and fully implemented..

Honestly ppl should stop complaining about contract
jobs. It is what it is, a contract. I'd like to think that you knew what
yo were getting into before you did it and you were not forced to do
it. If you go from being unemployed with zero income to being barely
employed with peanuts,its a crawl in the positive direction.
That being said,companies too need to know that quality comes at a good
price,if you can't pay people right don't expect the best.
And since the unemployed community in Nigeria grows by the micro second,
an individual who doesn't wanna settle for a contract job has got to
pray hard,score the best and win job wars.



well said but these set of people are merely enduring the pain. ask any bank staff under the contract arrangement how it feels and you will understand better..the least we can do is to speak up against it and not make it seems those companies are doing the right thing.

Given that most of the banks outsource recruitment of contract staff, technically you are not even an employee of the bank. Gtbank pays in excess of 75k to contract staff, that has got to be better than being unemployed.