International Labour Organization and Employment Stability during the COVID-19 Pandemic: the Nigerian Situational Analysis

Abstract

Retention of employment is an antidote for the containment of social fallout in an economy. Every employee would strive to retain their jobs at all costs and would be ready to put in extra efforts if there is the certainty of schemes in place to ensure job security. The emergence of Covid -19 Pandemic in the world in the year 2019 has brought about an unprecedented change in the global economy which expectedly affects employees who are the main contributors to the economy. The impact of Covid -19 and more, has gingered the International Labour Organization (ILO) to come up with some frameworks, policies and conventions which has the main aim of ensuring job security even in the face of Covid -19 and any other Pandemic in the foreseeable future. This work aims at examining the legal frameworks of ILO as regards the mitigation of the impact of Covid -19 on employees and to analyseprovisions of ILO laws with regards to the protection of employee status with an expose to the level of ratification of ILO provisions in Nigeria. This study isan analytical legal research that is qualitative in nature. This method aided the full X-ray of the impact of ILO at protecting the stability of employee during the pandemic.

Keywords: ILO, Employment, COVID19, Nigeria, Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work