“Enyim Solicitors make it their business to know you and your business, which is a great asset”.

Enyim Solicitors and Debt Recovery Services is a one shop solution and a market leader in labour and employment law in Nigeria. Approachable and commercially aware, the team’s specialists have in depth experience of the challenges faced by businesses when it comes to their staff. The firm’s proactive advice helps clients minimize risk and avoid potential liability.

We have extensive experience in the wide range of services needed to manage the ever dynamic and complex relationship between employers and employees, including labour management relations, employment litigations, retirement benefits and pension plans, work safety and health, job mobility and immigration, counseling, dispute resolution through arbitration and mediation, outsourcing, collective bargaining, immigration and employee issues arising from corporate take-over. We draft standard employment contracts and employee handbooks for several local and multinational clients. Our approach is simple rather than give dire warnings about legal responsibilities; we look at the reality of a situation design efficient policies taking into account, development in the legislative, judicial and commercial arena. Our team act for public companies, groups of companies, owner managed business, academic institutions and other not-for-profit organizations, start-up companies and senior executives. We provide a fast response by telephone or email to urgent employment problems, as well as support in handling on-going procedures or preparing policies. Our advice covers: compromise agreements, contract of employment, data protection and workplace monitoring, disciplinary/grievance procedures, discrimination issues, dismissals and redundancies, employment tribunal and court claims, flexible working and parental rights, industrial relations, restrictive covenants.

When faced with litigation, the team actively runs the case, guiding and advising in the tribunal or high court in areas such as contractual disputes, injunctions, unfair and wrongful dismissal, all aspects of discrimination, whistle blowing and industrial relations.