APPRAISAL OF EXTANT REGULATIONS ON RECOGNITION OF TRADE UNIONS

This article espouses the concept of trade union and interrogates gaps inherent in extant regulations on recognition of trade unions in the workplace in Nigeria. By articulating provisions of applicable regulations in the United Kingdom, it admits the slow pace of development of labour regulations in most developing countries, which incidentally accounts for large chunk of the challenges associated with recognition of trade unions in Nigeria. As a panacea to the identified challenges, the article concludes with the exigency for amendment of extant labour regulations on recognition of trade unions, by the National Assembly, so as to evolve a clearly thought-out, robust and dedicated normative framework with inputs of relevant stakeholders in the workplace