Section 29 Civil Aviation Act 2022
Section 29 of the Civil Aviation Act 2022 is about Designation of essential services. It is under Part VI (Ministerial Powers and Directions) of the Act.
(1) All services which facilitate and maintain the smooth, orderly and safe takeoff, flight and landing of aircraft, embarkation and the disembarkation and evacuation of passengers and cargo respectively in all aerodromes in Nigeria are hereby designated as essential services under the provisions of section 11 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999.
(2) The Minister may by regulations prohibit all or such class or classes of workers, officers and other employees or persons whether corporate or natural, engaged in the provision of the services specified in subsection (1) from taking part in a strike or other industrial action.
(3) In this section, “strike” means the cessation of work by a body of persons employed, acting in combination or a concerted refusal or a refusal under a common understanding of persons employed to continue to work for
an employer in consequence of a dispute, done as a means of compelling their employer, or the Government of the Federation of Nigeria or any part of it, or to aid any other worker in compelling his employer or any person or body of persons employed, to accept or not to accept terms of employment and physical conditions of work or any government economic policy or pricing of any essential product, and in this definition—
(a) “cessation of work” includes working at less than usual speed or with less than usual efficiency without reasonable operational justification ; and
(b) “refusal to continue to work” includes a refusal to work at usual speed or with usual efficiency.