Labour Adjudication in Nigeria: The Present and the Future

NECA acknowledges that labour adjudication has today become contentious, with employers and employees having different perspectives and opinions and that the stance taken by the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) has deepened the need for regular interaction between parties in the industrial relations system of the country.

This is made the more so with increasing influence of ILO Conventions and Recommendations in adjudication of labour disputes given the constitutional mandate of the NICN in virtue of section 254C(1)(f) and (h), and (2) of the 1999 Constitution (and section 7(6) of the National Industrial Court (NIC) Act 2006), which permits the NICN to, when adjudicating, apply international best practices in labour and the Treaties, Conventions, Recommendations and Protocols on labour ratified by Nigeria...