Towards Employees' Job Protection and Security: Roles of National Industrial Court (NIC) in Ensuring Peace in Nigeria Workspace

Abstract

The study justified the veracity of National Industrial Court (NIC) in playing role of final arbiter in industrial matters. The National industrial Court was essentially established to adjudicate on all issues emanating from industrial relations and labour market breakdown.NIC combines the rule of law applicable in conventional law courts with flexibility, expediency, reliability and affordability often associated with specialized courts.The potency of NIC was demonstrated in this study with clarity in its resolution of three industrial disputes among numerous others. Ultimately, hydra-industrial conflict which is an unavoidable phenomenon in the world of work now becomes resolvable with the machinery of NIC when properly explored.

Keywords: National industrial conflict, conflict resolution, employees' union, labour dispute.

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-5-12

Publication date: February 29^th 2020