Essential workplace guidance covering the Nigerian Labour Act, wrongful dismissal, statutory severance, pension non-remittance, workplace discrimination, and National Industrial Court (NICN) litigation.
No. Under Section 5 of the Labour Act, arbitrary wage deductions are strictly unlawful; employers can issue warnings but cannot forfeit earned...
No. Under the Public Holidays Act and National Industrial Court rules, working on statutory public holidays requires contractual overtime compensation or compensatory...
No. Under Section 39 of the 1999 Constitution, workplace pay secrecy clauses that punish workers for discussing remuneration are generally unenforceable in...
No. Under Section 5(1) of the Labour Act, deductions are only lawful for wilful damage or gross personal negligence, not ordinary operational...
No. Academic degree certificates remain the personal property of the graduate; employers may only verify originals and retain photocopies. Under Nigerian law,...
No. An employer cannot legally ban workers from joining, forming, or participating in a registered trade union, as the right to unionize...
No. Forcing female employees to sign an undertaking, contract, or bond promising not to get married or become pregnant for a specified...
No. Dismissing or victimizing an employee for blowing the whistle on corporate tax evasion, financial embezzlement, or unlawful activities is unlawful, and...
The employer is legally liable under both the Employees’ Compensation Act (ECA) 2010 and the common law tort of negligence for failure...
No. Deducting pension contributions from an employee’s monthly salary and failing to remit the funds to their Pension Fund Administrator (PFA) is...
