LASU Journal of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management
(LJERHRM)
ISSN: 2705-3482
Volume 2, No. 1, December 2020
Pages 216-236
DOI: 10.36108/ljerhrm/0202.02.0151
COVID-19: NEW ORDER FOR EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS AND HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
JAYEOBA, Foluso Ilesanmi1, AREMO, Michael Olanipekun2 , FAPOHUNDA, Tinuke Moradeke3 , GENTY, Kabiru Ishola4, BANKOLE, Rafiu Akanji5
Department of Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management, Faculty of Management Sciences, Lagos State University, Ojo
Emails:foluso.jayeoba@lasu.edu.ng1, michael.aremo@lasu.edu.ng2, tinuke.fapohunda@lasu.edu.ng3, ishola.genty@lasu.edu.ng4, akanji.bankole@lasu.edu.ng5
Abstract
The onset, spread, control measures and the behaviour of society, government and businesses have far reaching implications – social, economic and legal – for the immediate and future of employment relations and human resource management in Nigerian organisations. This chapter, drawing from available COVID-19 literature, ILO and WHO protocols, examined various concerns and challenges posed by ongoing covid-19 pandemic and the regimes of measures which are modeled after developed economies of the world but are at best ad-hoc, panicky, illdigested and their operations execution not based on empirical/objective assessment. COVID-19 has evidently brought job losses and unprecedented changes in work modes and some of the lessons and fallouts may live with us for a long time. Post-COVID-19 economic recovery though expected to be slow will leave the workplace and society with routines and rituals, lessons to learn and corrections to be made, not to avert future pandemics but to manage it in more precise manner with less panic and greater forthrightness.
Keywords: COVID-19, Employment relations, Human resource management, Lockdown, New order