Course Outline
- Labor Law Essentials
- The global legal environment
- History of labor law in in Nigeria
- Pre-labor law application in Nigeria
- Identification of exempted categories
- Legal framework of employment in Nigeria
- Legal instruments
- Introduction and overview of labor law
- Enforcement of labor law
- Labor contracts pre-requisites
- Labor law contracts
- Essential contents of contracts
- Employer and employee duties and responsibilities
- The secrets of contracts revealed
- Changes in legal status
- The notice period, probation period and leaves
- Notice period definition
- Guidelines for a notice letter
- Different applications of the notice period
- When a notice is not needed
- Probation period and its practices
- Types of leaves
- Working hours
- Overtime: explanation and calculations for eligibility
- Wages and disciplinary actions
- Total, basic and minimum wages
- Wages payment methodology
- Money deductions from employee wages
- Disciplinary actions and guidelines
- Penalties mentioned in the labor law
- When and why to discipline
- Dismissal and termination
- Arbitrary dismissal
- Unfair dismissal
- Termination from a legal point of view
- Arbitrary termination
- End of service allowances and calculations
- The bright and the dark side of dismissals and terminations
- Legal constraints for a healthy turnover
- Legal insights for human resources professionals