LABOUR ACT

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LABOUR ACT

CHAPTER L1 LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA, L.F.N. 2004

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Part I – General Provisions as to protection of wages, contracts of employment and terms and conditions of employment

Protection of wages

1.       Manner of payment.       

2.       Agreement as to place and manner of spending wages illegal. 

3.       Wages not to be paid on certain premises.

4.       Advances.   

5.       Deductions (including deductions for over-payment of wages).         

6.       Authority of employer to open shop.

7.       Written particulars of terms of employment.

8.       Medical examination.     

9.       Contracts: general.

10.     Transfer to other employment. 

11.     Termination of contracts by notice.    

12.     Common employment not a defence.

13.     Hours of work and overtime.    

14.     Provision of transport.    

15.     Periodicity of payment of wages.

16.     Sick leave.  

17.     Duty of employer to provide work.     

18.     Annual holidays with pay.

19.     Calculation of leave pay and sickness benefits.     

20.     Redundancy.                   

21.     Offences.    

22.     Exemptions.           

PART II – Recruiting

Recruiters and recruiting generally

23.     Prohibition of recruiting except under permit or licence.  

24.     Employer’s permit.

25.     Recruiter’s licence.

26.     Restrictions on recruiting.        

27.     Recruiting: miscellaneous provisions.

28.     Health.

29.     Transport.   

30.     Expenses and maintenance.    

31.     Repatriation.

32.     Capitation fee.                                     

33.     Procedural requirements.         

34.     Right to be accompanied by family.   

35.     Deferment of wages.

36.     Power of prohibition.      

37.     International agreements.       

38.     Duration of contract and return passages.

39.     Procedure prior to leaving Nigeria.     

40.     Special terms and conditions of contract.    

41.     Surrender of permits.

42.     Embarkation check.        

43.     Exemption from customs on repatriation.    

44.     Right to be accompanied by family at employer’s expense.

45.     Inducing recruiting by fraud, etc.      

46.     Neglect or ill-treatment. 

47.     Other offences.

Application

48.     Application.                                

Part III – Special Classes Of Worker And Miscellaneous Special Provisions

49.     Contracts of apprenticeship.    

50.     Attestation. 

51.     Retention of apprentice after expiry of contract.

52.     Regulations.

53.     Offences. General.           

54.     Maternity protection       

55.     Night work. 

56.     Underground work.

57.     Regulations.

58.     Offences.               

59.     General.     

60.     Night work. 

61.     Shipping.

62.     Register of young persons in industrial undertakings.    

63.     Regulations.

64.     Offences.

65.     Regulations.                               

66.     Labour health areas.      

67.     Regulations.           

68.     Registration of employers.       

69.     Labour schemes.  

70.     Employment exchanges.

71.     Fee-charging employment agencies. 

72.     Offences.               

73.     Prohibition of forced labour.     

74.     Labour required in emergencies and for communal obligations            

Part IV – Supplemental

75.     Records.     

76.     Returns.                

77.     Authorized labour offices.        

78.     Powers of authorized labour officers. 

79.     Delegation of functions.

80.     Jurisdiction.

81.     Labour complaints.

82.     Powers of the court.

83.     Procedure.  

84.     Compensation, and provision of food.

85.     Costs.

86.     Application to public authorities.        

87.     Contracts made abroad. 

88.     Regulations.

89.     Savings and exemptions.         

90.     Repeal, and transitional and saving provisions.     

91.     Interpretation.

92.     Short title.                                 

Schedule: Transitional and saving Provisions

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LABOUR ACT 

An Act to repeal and replace the Labour Code Act and consolidate the law relating to labour.

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[COMMENCEMENT]                      [1^st August 1971]     

Part I – General provisions as to protection of wages, contracts of employment and terms and conditions of  employment.

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