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Ahead of its yearly Employers’ Excellence Awards 2022, the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) is set to celebrate businesses’ resilience and doggedness in the last year.
Director-General of NECA, Adewale-Smatt Oyerinde, at a press briefing, said with inflation at about 27.3 per cent and the capacity of businesses hovering around 50 per cent while more businesses are planning to leave the country due to the harsh operating environment, it was paramount to celebrate and reward businesses that have survived and stood tall.
He said the yearly award has been established to celebrate organisations that have implemented policies, systems, and processes that create and sustain enterprise competitiveness, productivity, industrial peace, and harmony.
He said the objective of the excellence awards was to celebrate the resilience and doggedness of Nigerian enterprises and to encourage best practices and responsible enterprises for others to emulate.
The NECA chief said through such exposure, employers would have an extra channel for enhancing their brand profiles as leading and responsible employers in Nigeria, thereby contributing to economic prosperity and industrial harmony in Nigeria.
Oyerinde said the awards, tagged ‘Against All Odds’, would be sector-based with a winner emerging from each sector of the economy, while the employer of the year would be selected from the winners by a panel of jury and judges.
“Notwithstanding challenges businesses face in their capacity to meet obligations to regulatory authorities and internal stakeholders, as well as their resilience to continue to maintain staff without retrenching despite all the multifaceted challenges being faced with.
“Against all odds is against all challenges and legislative attacks, strikes and global competitiveness, despite all, many of the organisations are still surviving.
“We are also celebrating businesses that have exited either through divestment or due to harsh operating environment, their contributions to the Nigerian economy are also what we are celebrating. It is against all odds that they are still standing and contributing to the national and global economy,” he said.
Chairman, Organising Committee, Steve Olayinka, said the criteria for the awards, which is in its third edition and slated to be held on Nov 29, 2023, in Lagos, include leadership and governance; innovation, productivity and corporate performance; effective human resource management and industrial relations; technology optimisation; occupational health and safety; inclusiveness and diversity as well as responsible business conduct/ corporate social responsibility.
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