The Nigeria Labour Congress has announced a statewide enforcement campaign against employers who have failed to remit their workers’ pension contributions, warning that defaulting organization’s face public exposure and prosecution beginning the first day of June 2026.

The Lagos State chapter chairperson made the announcement at an interactive session on the Contributory Pension Scheme organized by the National Pension Commission, drawing a sharp distinction between foreign investor employers who observe labour laws in their home countries but ignore them in Nigeria, and indigenous employers who follow the same permissive pattern.

She stated that the Congress had come to speak for workers who had no voice, and that Nigerian workers must be able to retire with dignity. Labour laws, she said, would be enforced to the letter beginning with Lagos State.

The enforcement teams being deployed will work in collaboration with PenCom’s compliance department and other stakeholders. They will identify and sanction employers violating the Pension Reform Act, including those who deduct pension contributions from salaries monthly but fail to remit them to the appropriate Pension Fund Administrators.

The chairperson described the scale of the problem as alarming, noting that many workers only discover that their contributions were never remitted when they approach retirement, at which point recovery becomes difficult. The Congress, she said, would no longer stand aside while Nigerian workers toiled without a secure future.

The National Pension Commission director-general, speaking at the same session, pledged to deploy every instrument available to her office to hold non-compliant employers accountable. Both the NLC and PenCom framed the enforcement drive as a matter of fundamental worker rights rather than a regulatory technicality.