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7 of the Labour Act, Cap 198, Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1990, among others, provides that, “Not later than three months after the beginning of a worker’s period of employment with an employer, the employer shall give to the worker a written statement specifying the terms and conditions of employment, which include the nature of the employment and if the contract is for a fixed term, the date when the contract expires.
Among the characteristics of casual or precarious employment are Lack of employment contract, Lack of job security, Long hours of work, Low and uncertain wages, Poor working conditions, Denial of right to form union and bargain collectively.
“The typical characteristic of all of them, depending on the company and/or country, is that the victims tend to be subjected to dehumanising and humiliating conditions of work. Indeed, some authors have expressed the plight of a casual in a mathematical equation as “casualisation plus outsourcing equals servitude. Since many casuals are compelled by the necessity for economic survival to accept casual contracts of employment, some scholars identify the phenomenon as “involuntary servitude.
Though it generally believes that the upsurge in precarious employment is the fallout of globalization, but its practice in Nigeria is nothing, but industrial slavery.”Few years ago, one of the standpoints of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, under the leaders of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, which made Labour a household name in Nigeria, was its anti-casualisation campaigns.
Among those that submitted motions on casualisation were Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, Amalgamated Union of Public Corporation, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees, AUPCTRE, National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, National Union of Chemical, Footwear, Rubber Leather and Non-Metalic Products Employees, NUCFRLANMPE, and Radio, Television, Theatre and Arts Workers Union of Nigeria, RATTAWU.
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