The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Tuesday, warned the Federal Government to desist from its plan to deregulate labour to states by removing it from the Exclusive Legislative List.

This was consisted of in a declaration by the President of NLC, Ayuba Wabba.

He stated that the decision would create intractable turmoil for the nation along with judicial problems, including that the federal government would also flout International Labour Organizations conventions.

The labour leader kept that such development explained the near uniformity of labour laws across the nations of the world and relative global industrial order, harmony and a destination for foreign financial investment.

He discussed that the nation-states legislation on labour is driven substantially from the International Labour Organisation protocols, suggestions and conventions and other instruments domesticated through the Acts of parliament.

He said deregulating labour to the states will inevitably develop intractable problems, adding that at the subscription level, the 36 states of the federation and the FCT are not sovereign which is a basis for ILO membership of Nigeria.

He said a corpus of labour legislation across the 36 states and FCT will probably produce a judicial problem.

He added that investors will be frightened as they will consider this as an unnecessary addition to the currently hostile operating environment, saying that at the level of employees who frequently act in the nationwide interest, it will trim patriotic influence.

“In the light of this, we will highly advocate against removing labour from the Exclusive Legislative List. Not even throughout the military period was this contemplated,” he stated.