By Abdulwahab  Abdulah
LAGOS— A judge of the National Industrial Court, NIC, Justice Benedict Kanyip, yesterday, decried the unethical labour practices in which young ladies are engaged by banks to source for money and laid off if they could not meet the bank’s target.

The judge urged employers of labour to refrain from embarking on acts capable of imposing undue burden on employees, especially as regard the hiring and firing of workers from their jobs.

Meanwhile, President of the court, Justice Babatunde Adejumo, has called on the National Universities Commission, NUC, and the Council of Legal Education to make labour law a compulsory course for law undergraduates and Law School students.

Adejumo said this would enhance a healthy industrial relations in the country as well as promote economic development.

Justice Kanyip,  who spoke at the symposium organised by the law firm of Gani Adetola Kazeem, SAN in collaboration with the National  Industrial Court,  reviewed practices in some work places and concluded that the NIC must continue to strive in ensuring a healthy practice between  employees and employers.

The theme of the public enlightenment symposium was, “Status, Power and Jurisdiction conferred on the NIC by the 1999 Constitution.”