The Status of Non-Standard Employment in the Context of Nigeria Labour Law

Abstract

The existence of non-standard employees in the Nigeria work environment is truly neither contemplated nor regulated by law. Thus, companies that adopt this method of labour processes are not offenders of the law. The Nigerian labour law, which is expected to provide for the protection of employees, has failed to make adequate provisions for the protection of this category of workers, thereby subjecting them to the whims and caprices of the employer. The failure of the state to regulate the casual working system made the companies adopting this form of employment to take the advantage of the gap in the Nigeria labour laws that are gray in regards to casualization. This paper aimed at clarifying the stance of the Nigeria labour law on the issue of atypical employment through literature review and a content analysis of the Nigeria labour laws and other legal provisions. It attempts to determine, with legal analysis if casualization is an accepted phenomenon or otherwise in the Nigeria labour market.