Book excerpt: This Compendium of Employment and Labour Law in Nigeria, presents the current laws of employment and labour for the benefit of employers and employees generally and in particular for legal practitioners, judges, law lecturers and students, industrial relations managers and trade union officials. The work is based on the interpretation and practical application of the law not only by Nigerian courts but also by the courts of other legal systems notably Britain and India and is to some extent therefore a comparative study of the practice of employment and labour laws.