First: The heirs and successors and assignees of an employer as the case may be.
Second: The owner of any establishment or the chairperson or any person authorised by him
(b) The Federal Government and the federal government organ; the Minister of Finance or any person
authorised by him.
(c) The public sector companies; the chairperson or any person authorised by him.
“ Basic Salary” means the salary plus the cost of living allowance excluding other allowances.
“ Project” means any project under the management of any person; wherein one or more workers are employed
in return for wage of whatever type in the federal or states governments, public, private, corporation or mixed
sector.
“ Factory ” means any industrial establishment or corporation or scheme under the management of a natural or
corporate person, wherein one or more workers are employed in return for wages of whatever type and includes
all the industrial operations set out in schedule No. (2) hereto, and any places, whether in open space or otherwise
where any of following are carried out, directly or indirectly, for trade purpose or for gain: (a) manufacturing any substance wholly or partially;
(b) changing, repairing, ornamenting, finishing, cleaning, washing, preparing, any substance for the sale or the
demolition thereof;
(c) printing by a printing press, lithography, photo-gravur, bookbinding,
(d) or any other similar process;
(e) Generation of electricity, transforming its current or its distribution or use in factories and electrical
schemes.
“Dependants” means those members of the family of an employer who have no work, profession or income by
which they earn a living and his relatives or the relatives of his wife, who depend wholly on him for their
livelihood
“ Industrial Safety Inspector” means the official appointed under section 87 hereto,
“ Civil Servants” means any civil servant who occupies a position set out in the first section of the public budget
of the state;
“Trade dispute” means any dispute between employers and employees, between employees and employees,
between employers and employers respecting the employment or non- employment or the terms and
circumstances of employment of any person.
“Trade Union” means any trade union formed under the Employees Trade Union Act 1992
“Minister ” means the Central Minister of Manpower;
“Intimidate ” means to cause in the mind of the employee or employer a reasonable apprehension of injury to
him or any member of his family or to any of his dependants or of violence or damage to any employer or
employee or to his property.
PART II: THE MANPOWER
5. The Commission and its constitution
(1) The Minister may, by an order made by him, constitute a commission to be cited as the Federal
Commission for manpower, consisting of a president, specialised members representing the state’s
organs concerned, workers and employers.
(2) The Commission provided in section (1) may constitute subcommittees for it in the states
(3) The Federal Commissions and its subcommittees in the states are subject to the supervision of the
Minister
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