Reform Act 2004 seeks to ensure that employees covered by the Act receive their retirement benefits as and when due, aims at assisting improvident persons save for old age etc.    The Nigerian Oil and Gas Local Content Act 2010 seeks to give the force of law to the Nigerian Content Policy, the objective of which is to increase the quantum composite value added to or created in the Nigerian economy by the systematic development of capacity and capabilities through the deliberate utilization of Nigerian human and material resources and services in the country’s oil and gas industry thereby creating employment and investment opportunities for Nigerians. The National Policy on Child Labour, 2013, seeks to provide modalities for concretized efforts to institutionalize the national programme on Child labour, harmonization of child labour projects and interventions nationwide; implementation of programmes and projects for the prevention and elimination of child labour; etc. As one of the member states making up the International Labour Organization (ILO), Nigeria has currently, fully ratified and domesticated to an extent, all eight Core Labour Standards entrenching human and peoples’ rights in the world of work. During the period of this report, the workers’ rights embedded in the core labour standards, were protected and ensured by Labour Officers in the Ministry through various forms of Intervention entailing Social Dialogue, Tripartite meetings, Integrated Labour Inspections, and other functional modes at the disposal of the Ministry. The right of any party in a trade dispute to be heard starting from mediation to conciliation to a referral by the Hon. Minister of labour and productivity to the Industrial Arbitration Panel is been enhanced and if any of the parties to the dispute is dissatisfied with the IAP Award, a further referral to the National Industrial Court which is the final arbiter in trade dispute matters is available unless it is on a matter of fundamental human rights. In furtherance of the determination of the Federal government of Nigeria to strengthen rights at work the National Industrial Court has been upgraded and recognized as a superior court of record in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Individual labour complaints (as different from trade disputes declared by Trade Unions) were handled nationwide by the respective State Controller manning each of the States’ Labour Officers of the Federation including the FCT and by the Headquarters labour administration when conciliation fails at the state level.  The Ministry of Labour recognizes that the worker is the most important factor of production and has collaborated with the Social Partners, Development Partners, Non-Governmental Partners Organizations and People Living with HIV/AIDS to develop and produce the National Workplace Policy on HIV/AIDS as well as an implementation manual of the policy. The policy which is right based provides guidelines for government, employers, workers and other stakeholders in the workplace and also identifies strategies and programmes for protecting the rights and dignity of workers infected by the virus. The Ministry is also extending care and support to some of its staff that are affected by the scourge to enable them to be in employment as long as they could. 69