Employment and Labour Relations Issues Arising from COVID 19
The outbreak of the novel Coronavirus Disease- (COVID-19) – has brought about a global economic downturn and negative impact on global commercial activities with economies at the brink of a recession. Generally, labour relations are governed by the labour legislations in different countries and more specifically by contracts of employment, which spell out the terms which have been agreed to by both employer and employees to govern their relations during the term of employment.
A pandemic of this type is unprecedented and it is not unlikely that most employers in drawing up employment contracts would not have contemplated circumstances which would bring about this level of interruption and disruption to work as we now have with the COVID -19. Businesses now have to deal with issues of non-performance of obligations in employment contracts and situations which employment contracts, company policies and employee handbooks cannot deal with sufficiently. In this note, The Employment and Labour Lawyers Association of Nigeria (ELLAN) gives some guidance on some common employment and labour related issues that have been thrown up by the pandemic.
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