Abstract
Nigerian labour management practices involve the interactions between
employers and employees within the work environment. These practices are shaped
by various factors, including cultural influences, legal frameworks, economic
conditions, and organizational structures. For more than three decades,1990 to date, ASUU-federal Government
of Nigeria (FGN) have been engaged in prolonged industrial conflict over
several issues of importance to the union especially, poor wages and conditions
of services, under funding, infrastructural deficit, lack of autonomy and
academic freedom. This study is set to discuss the Nigerian labour
management practices focusing on the intricacies of
implementing labour agreements in Nigeria with reference
to ASUU in federal and state universities in Nigeria. The methodology
involves a mixed-methods approach, encompassing a comprehensive review of
existing literature, and employee relation theory was adopted for the
theoretical underpinning of the study. The study revealed that poor funding of the university education;
non-compliance to reached agreements after negotiations; refusal of union
recognition in major decision making that concerns their welfare, poor
conditions of service such as unconducive working environment, inadequate pay
packages, poor welfare services, among others; poor and inconsistent payment of
salaries and other emoluments such as delay in payment of salaries without a
justifiable reason for such delay; failure to collective bargaining; political
interference; as well as unpopular, No work No pay rule and
harsh public policies exist in the labour relation between Federal government
and ASUU. Therefore, labour crises in Nigeria higher education system need to
be urgently addressed and checkmated, hence, the study recommended that
collective bargaining has to be embedded within the concept of dialogue and all
types of negotiation, consultation between, or among, representatives of
government.
Keywords: Labour laws, Labour management, work environment, wage structure, condition service
author/Umar Adamu, Usman Bappi & Abdulkadir Ibrahim
journal/FUJPAM Vol. 3, No. 1
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