March 17, 2020
GIG ECONOMY WORKERS: EMPLOYEES OR INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS? BY Ruth Nwankwo and Chibueze Muobuikwu
GIG ECONOMY WORKERS: EMPLOYEES OR INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS?[1]
INTRODUCTION
Gig economy is an economic activity that involves the use of temporary or freelance workers to perform jobs typically in the service sector.[2] In a gig economy, flexible jobs are commonplace and companies tend towards hiring independent contractors and freelancers instead of full-time employees.[3] In essence, it is where workers complete tasks on a project-by-project or client-by-client basis rather than regularly working for a single employer.[4] The gig economy is characterized by flexibility, zero hour contracts, self employment, workers paid for limited contracts, and people having more than one source of income.[5] Jobs in the gig economy include ridesharing [Uber, Bolt, Opay etc] which is now popular, delivery driving, selling craft, consulting, freelance writing, photography, coding and programming etc.[6] Participants in the gig economy are usually referred to as gig workers and on-demand companies. A gig worker has been defined to mean an independent contractor, online platform worker, contract firm worker, on-call worker and temporary worker.[7]
March 17, 2020
Our Senior Partner, hashtagSylva Ogwemoh,SAN # with Arbitration Panel members – Prof. Jose` Miguel Judice and Dr Fan Yang at the LSE-LCIA Vis pre-moot in London hosted by the London Court of International Arbitration and London School of Economics.
March 17, 2020
Our Managing Partner, hashtagMrsPriscillaOgwemoh# with our associates, hashtagChibuezeMuobuikwu # and hashtagRuthNwankwo at the seminar organized by the Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators held last Thursday, 20th February, 2020. Our Managing Partner, Mrs Priscilla Ogwemoh, was featured in a panel session at the seminar on ‘Transparency in an Arbitral Process’. While discussing the topic, she stated amongst others, that transparency cuts across every process of arbitration and the need to strike a balance between transparency and confidentiality.
March 17, 2020
Our Senior Partner, Sylva Ogwemoh SAN with CNN’s Richard Quest, MD Zenith Bank, Ebenezer Onyeagwu, Fabian Ajogwu SAN and others at the 20th anniversary of CNN Inside Africa held on Tuesday, February 18, 2020.
March 17, 2020
KMO Legal is pleased to announce the elevation of Chibueze Muobuikwu and Benjamin Ajunwa to the position of senior associates of the firm.
February 3, 2020
THE BUSINESS OF LAW CONFERENCE 2020
Our Associates, Mercy Agbo and Latifat Moradeyo at the Business of the Law Conference 2020 held on 28th January, 2020 at the Muson Centre, Lagos.
Theme: Visibility: Positioning Lawyers and the Legal Industry for More Business Opportunities. An educative program that teaches Lawyers and Law firms on how to develop the business, attract proper clientele and add value to the society.
January 13, 2020
KMO LEGAL RECORDS ANOTHER REMARKABLE FEAT AT THE SUPREME COURT FOR MR. BULUS GOLIT OF BUA GROUP
The Supreme Court by a Judgement delivered on Friday, 10th January, 2020, upturned the decisions of the High Court and the Court of Appeal, by discharging and acquitting Mr. Bulus Golit, the Chief Security Officer (CSO) of BUA cement, a subsidiary of the BUA group on all the Charges against him.
Mr Bulus Golit, represented by Sylva Ogwemoh SAN, the senior partner of KMO Legal, is the Chief Security Officer of BUA Cement. Mr Bulus was charged at the Kogi State High Court, Lokoja on a twenty one (21) Count charge filed on May, 2016 under the Penal Code law Cap 89 Laws of Northern Nigeria 1963 for inter alia, conspiracy, abduction, assault, intimidation and robbery, of members of staff and expatriates working for Dangote group of companies.
The charge preferred against Mr Bulus and other persons was as a result of a dispute which ensued between the Dangote Cement and BUA Cement, (subsidiaries of the Dangote group of companies and BUA group respectively); over some mining leases (ML.18912 and ML.18913) located in Okpella town in Edo State.
Following the discharge of twenty (20) count charges against Mr Bulus Golit on a No- case submission at the trial Court, Mr Bulus was convicted by the trial court on the remaining charge of conspiracy.
On appeal, the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the trial court. The Apex Court, however, in its judgment delivered on Friday, 10th January, 2020, upturned the decisions of the lower Courts (the Court of Appeal and the High Court), thereby discharging and acquitting Mr Bulus Golit of the said charge.
January 8, 2020
THE SUPREME COURT VALIDATES THE RE-ELECTION OF MR. UDOM EMMANUEL AS GOVERNOR OF AKWA IBOM STATE.
KMO Legal achieves another huge success following the Judgment delivered by the Supreme Court on 18th December 2019 upholding the earlier Judgments of the Governorship Election Tribunal and the Court of Appeal both of which validated the re-election of Mr. Udom Emmanuel as Governor of Akwa Ibom State.
