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Part I of the Labour Act in Nigeria. 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 I Labour Act

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