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An Appraisal of the Legal Framework for the Resolution of Industrial Disputes in Nigeria

Industrial harmony is a precondition for economic productivity, and the manner in which a legal system channels and resolves conflict between capital and labour is accordingly a matter of first-order national importance. Nigeria has, over the past five decades, constructed a multi-tiered statutory framework for the resolution of industrial disputes, anchored in the Trade Disputes Act, the Trade Unions Act, the National Industrial Court Act and, since 2010, the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Third Alteration) Act. That framework contemplates a graduated sequence of dispute-res…