Labour Act in Nigeria

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

  • Protection of wages

  • Section 1. Manner of payment
  • Section 2. Agreement as to place and manner of spending wages illegal
  • Section 3. Wages not to be paid on certain premises
  • Section 4. Advances
  • Section 5. Deductions (including deductions for over-payment of wages)
  • Section 6. Authority of employer to open shop

  • Contracts of employment

  • Section 7. Written particulars of terms of employment
  • Section 8. Medical examination
  • Section 9. Contracts: general
  • Section 10. Transfer to other employment
  • Section 11. Termination of contracts by notice
  • Section 12. Common employment not a defence

  • Terms and conditions of employment

  • Section 13. Hours of work and overtime
  • Section 14. Provision of transport
  • Section 15. Periodicity of payment of wages
  • Section 16. Sick leave
  • Section 17. Duty of employer to provide work
  • Section 18. Annual holidays with pay
  • Section 19. Calculation of leave pay and sickness benefits
  • Section 20. Redundancy

  • General

  • Section 21. Offences
  • Section 22. Exemptions
• Part II. Recruiting

  • Recruiters and recruiting generally

  • Section 23. Prohibition of recruiting except under permit or licence
  • Section 24. Employer's permit
  • Section 25. Recruiter's licence
  • Section 26. Restrictions on recruiting
  • Section 27. Recruiting: miscellaneous provisions
  • Section 28. Health
  • Section 29. Transport
  • Section 30. Expenses and maintenance
  • Section 31. Repatriation
  • Section 32. Capitation fee

  • Recruiting for employment in Nigeria

  • Section 33. Procedural requirements
  • Section 34. Right to be accompanied by family
  • Section 35. Deferment of wages

  • Recruiting for employment outside Nigeria

  • Section 36. Power of prohibition
  • Section 37. International agreements
  • Section 38. Duration of contract and return passages
  • Section 39. Procedure prior to leaving Nigeria
  • Section 40. Special terms and conditions of contract
  • Section 41. Surrender of permits
  • Section 42. Embarkation check
  • Section 43. Exemption from customs on repatriation
  • Section 44. Right to be accompanied by family at employer's expense

  • Enforcement provisions

  • Section 45. Inducing recruiting by fraud, etc
  • Section 46. Neglect or ill-treatment
  • Section 47. Other offences

  • Application

  • Section 48. Application
• Part III. Special Classes of Worker and Miscellaneous Special Provisions

  • Apprentices

  • Section 49. Contracts of apprenticeship
  • Section 50. Attestation
  • Section 51. Retention of apprentice after expir of contract
  • Section 52. Regulations
  • Section 53. Offences

  • Employment of women

  • Section 54. Maternity protection
  • Section 55. Night work
  • Section 56. Underground work
  • Section 57. Regulations
  • Section 58. Offences

  • Young persons

  • Section 59. General
  • Section 60. Night work
  • Section 61. Shipping
  • Section 62. Register of young persons in industrial undertakings
  • Section 63. Regulations
  • Section 64. Offences

  • Domestic service

  • Section 65. Regulations

  • Labour health areas

  • Section 66. Labour health areas
  • Section 67. Regulations

  • Registration, employment exchanges, etc.

  • Section 68. Registration of employers
  • Section 69. Labour schemes
  • Section 70. Employment exchanges
  • Section 71. Fee-charging employment agencies
  • Section 72. Offences

  • Forced labour

  • Section 73. Prohibition of forced labour
  • Section 74. Labour required in emergencies and for communal obligations
• Part IV. Supplemental

  • Records and returns

  • Section 75. Records
  • Section 76. Returns

  • Administration

  • Section 77. Authorized labour offices
  • Section 78. Powers of authorized labour officers
  • Section 79. Delegation of functions

  • Settlement of disputes

  • Section 80. Jurisdiction
  • Section 81. Labour complaints
  • Section 82. Powers of the court
  • Section 83. Procedure
  • Section 84. Compensation, and provision of food
  • Section 85. Costs

  • Miscellaneous

  • Section 86. Application to public authorities
  • Section 87. Contracts made abroad
  • Section 88. Regulations
  • Section 89. Savings and exemptions
  • Section 90. Repeal, and transitional and saving provisions
  • Section 91. Interpretation
  • Section 92. Short title
• Schedule. Transitional and Saving Provisions

Labour Act in Nigeria