Selected Nigerian and Indian Labour Practices and the Law

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The possible challenges that could be found in the two jurisdictions of study are the new trends of labour practices. Examples of such are: tattoos at the workplace, a basis for termination; when a trade union borrows check-off dues in advance from an employer; lack of international legislation on the issue of outsourcing (or contracting out); and, the difficulties posed in legally proving the existence of the employment relationship in a tripartite setting, the simultaneous boss-and-slave kind of job which re-conceptualises the earlier slave-boss principle (the exploitative conditions involved as opposed to the entrepreneurial freedom or flexibility they were made to believe it gives, e.g., Uber drivers, Ola and Airbnb, etc.).

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