Termination of Employment The Applicability or otherwise and the Implications of 'Statutory Flavour' to Senior Employees of Private Universities in Nigeria
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Date
2019
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Redeemer's University Law Journal. (RUNLAWJ )
Abstract
This paper examines the applicability or otherwise
and the implications of 'statutory flavour' to the
contract of employment of senior employees of
private Universities in Nigeria. It considers the
meaning of employment clothed with statutory
flavour. It argues whether the control, regulation,
supervision, verification and accreditation of
academic programmes of private Universities by
statutory bodies such as the National University
Commission (NUC) and the Joint Admission and
Matriculation Board (JAMB); and the regulatory
statutes such as the National Universities
Commission Act and the Education (National
Minimum Standards and Establishments of
Institutions) Act, for instance, does not make private
Universities a creation of statute by extension,
thereby making statutory flavour applicable to the
status of senior employees of those Universities. It
considers whether the license granted by the
government through the regulatory bodies for the
establishment of private universities is not a quasi statute, even if it is not statute per se. With relevant
authorities and statutes to ascertain its position, the
paper concludes by establishing that senior
employees in private Universities should have their
employment clothed with statutory flavour like their
public counterparts especially when the issue of
determination of their employment comes up
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Termination of employment, Employment with Statutory flavour, Private universities, Senior employees, Statute