Do You Know You Can Approach The Industrial Court If You Are Sacked Unlawfully By Your Employer?

Are you aware that the NIC has jurisdiction on matters relating to environment conditions of your  work place and all that,we read the judgement delivered by the NIC in the case of Jennifer and her employers.
The Industrial Court, Ikoyi, Lagos gave a ruling in favour of Jennifer Adighije-Okolo, the well known designer who is the creative director of the House of Silk against her former employer Helios Towers, a telecom firm.
In the court ruling, the Telecom firm would need to pay, Jennifer Adighije-Okolo N13.55 Million for unfairly terminating her employment. Jennifer before the sack was the company's Head of Operations & Planning.

The Company had terminated their former employee's appointment for what they had termed poor performance (performing below par), Jennifer not satisfied with how she was sacked had taken the company to the Industrial Court, Ikoyi, Lagos seeking for redress. The end result of the case is her winning N9 Million which is the sum total of her salary from between February 1, 2010 to January 31, 2012. Apart from the N9 Million, the defendant would also be paying the claimant another N4.5 Million for damages and also awarded in the claimant's favour is another N50,000 cost.
read the full post and judgement in the link below
http://maestromedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/lagos-designer-jennifer-adighije-okolo.html


The court has exclusive jurisdiction in civil causes and matters relating to or connected with any labour, employment, trade unions, industrial relations and matters arising from workplace, the conditions of service, including health, safety, welfare of labour, employee, worker and matter incidental thereto or connected therewith. The court also has exclusive jurisdiction in civil matters relating to, connected with or arising from Factories Act, Trade Disputes Act, Trade Unions Act, Workmen's Compensations Act or any other Act or Law relating to labour, employment, industrial relations, workplace or any other enactment replacing the Acts or Laws………read more (link to Constitution(Third Alteration) Amendment Act 2010). Appeals also lie from the Court to the Court of Appeal as contained in Chapter IV of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999. The National Industrial Court consists of the President of the Court and not less than twelve Judges. Presently the National Industrial Court is manned by the President and nine other Judges.Read More