In this article, HCK Nkamuke and Prince Tochukwu Agu both of the FDI Nigeria Initiatives3 (FDIN3) examine the interaction between labour-employment law and arbitration.

Interaction between labour law and employment law

In an article on the quiet revolutions of our labour-employment law jurisprudence published on Primera Africa Legal (PAL) website on 30 June 2017 the same day Nigeria’s Supreme Court delivered the policy-setting decision in SKYE BANK V ANAMEM IWU SC885/2014 (2017) LPELR – 42595 (SC), PAL, speaking through Lemea J-RSHC (Judge of the High Court of Rivers State), Esther, Nkamuke and Zikora (all PAL alumni) proposed a thesis on labour-employment law interaction as follows:

“This discussion adopts the coinage Labour/Employment Law since it is no longer safe to reduce the entire quirks and intricacies of employer/employee relationship to solely what the employer intends the terms of engagement to mean. The current legal regime now subsumes the peculiarities of each relationship (Employment Law) to the larger tenets of the law on the subject matter (Labour Law). The reasoning here is that while Labour Law directs the course Employment Law takes; the case by case development of the latter contributes and improves the entire body of law of the former. It is important that these developments are brought to the knowledge of employers and employees alike, legislators, lawyers and persons doing or seeking to do business in Nigeria.”

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