Voices for Labour

07/09/2022

📻📌Four Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have petitioned the Constitutional Court in challenging the eviction of street vendors without providing them with a viable alternative for their socio-economic survival. Among the petitioners there is also our affiliate UMAEU.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/csos-petition-court-over-vendors-eviction/ar-AA11vdcK?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds

📸 In the picture, UMAEU comrades during a visit with WIEGO International Coordinator

07/09/2022

Pakistan’s garment workers need safe factories

Pakistan’s garment workers need safe factories

11 September marks the tenth anniversary of the fire at Ali Enterprises, a readymade garment-manufacturing factory, in Pakistan. More than 250 people were killed and over 50 were injured in one of the world’s worst industrial fires. Although workplace safety remains a major concern, significant st...

05/09/2022

Last week, Voices For Labour along with other organisations filed two petitions in the Constitutional court of Uganda challenging the exclusion of workers in the informal economy from protection.

The first Petition seeks to challenge some provisions of the Labour Unions Act, No.7 of 2006, Employment Act No.6 of 2006, The Labour( Dispute settlement and arbitration) Act and the Workers compensation Act, 2000 whereas the second one challenges the eviction of street vendors including some provisions of the law that deny them protection contrary to what the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda provides.

02/09/2022

Thank you StreetNet for this solidarity

‼️A new partnership has been born !🤝🏽🤝🏿
‼️UMAEU, WIENU and other informal workers associations in Uganda 🇺🇬have embarked on a Litigation Process ⚖️ for legal recognition of Informal Economy in Uganda. as well as Enhance Advocacy, Organizing and Recruitment. Social Solidarity.

‼️The process has been flagged off by International Lawyers Assisting Workers Network and Voice for Labor in Uganda.
‼️ Mwijuka Jesca has been a stakeholder since the process started in 2021 and is head of the Social Media Campaign Strategic Team.

26/08/2022

24/08/2022

Today International Lawyers Assisting workers Network in partnership with Voices For Labour trained Journalists on the role of Media in protecting the rights of workers in the Informal Economy

19/06/2022

Happening tomorrow from 5p.m to 6p.m

09/06/2022

Happy Heroes day to all workers

01/06/2022

Voices For Labour on Twitter

Voices For Labour on Twitter

“We condemn this in the strongest terms!! Workers are entitled to their wages. Why should they be brutally arrested and tortured for protesting delayed salary payment?? ”

23/05/2022

Collective negotiations can protect from the worst impacts of informalisation. Here are tips for the negotiator -> https://bit.ly/3MDirqx

19/05/2022

Our E.D discussing the question of Minimum wage amidst the rising commodity prices

18/05/2022

Watch and Listen to our E.D as she discusses the question of a minimum wage amidst the rising commodity prices.

10/05/2022

Kindly tune in

08/05/2022

Happy mother's day!

01/05/2022

Happy Labour day!

18/04/2022

THE POSITION OF THE LAW ON CONSTRUCTIVE DISMISSAL

In UGAFODE Microfinance Ltd VS Mark Kyoribona Labour Dispute Appeal NO. 034 of 2019 [Arising from Labour Dispute Complaint No. 241/2018, The Industrial Court of Uganda re-affirmed the position of the law on constructive dismissal. Court quoted this;

Section 65 of the Employment Act provides;
“65. Termination
Termination shall be deemed to take place in the following circumstances –
…..
….
Where the contract of service is ended by the employee with or without notice, as a consequence of unreasonable conduct on the part of the employer towards the employee; and
…”

Unreasonable conduct of the employee can only be ascertained from the circumstances of a given case. Such unreasonable conduct may lead the employee to offer resignation or refusal to report to work thus terminating the employment relationship.

Court refered to its own decision in the case of Nyakabwa J. Abwooli Vs Security 2000 Ltd, Labour Dispute 108/2014 where it held;

“In order for the conduct of an employer to be deemed unreasonable within the meaning of Section 65 (1)(c) … such conduct must be illegal, injurious to the employee and make it impossible for the employee to continue working. The conduct of the employer must amount to a serious breach and not a minor or trivial incident and the employee must act in response to the breach not for any other connected reason and act in a reasonable time. What might be a serious breach in one case may not be necessarily a major one in another case and so each case must be decided on its particular facts.”

Reference was also made to the the authority of Muyimbwa Paul Vs Ndejje University, Labour Dispute Reference No. 222/2015 which held that demotion of an employee without a hearing is a serious breach of contract constituting constructive dismissal once an employee refuses to return to work as a result of such demotion.

18/04/2022

Workers should normalize the habit of making written requests for annual leave. Many companies do not provide employees with leave request forms. However, in such circumstances, employees can make a written request to prove that they requested for the same and were denied.It is important that they do this because many are losing out on claims of unpaid leave on the basis of failing to prove that they requested and were denied the same.

17/04/2022

Happy Easter celebrations!

16/04/2022

Strengthen the Tax system to reduce the income and gender inequalities in Uganda | Oxfam in Uganda

"Strengthen the Tax system to reduce the income and gender inequalities in Uganda"

13th April 2022

16/04/2022

Why the conversation about climate change and migration needs to change

‘The climate crisis is not a standalone issue; it’s a product of a long history of exploitation, of inequality, of accumulation.’

Climate change is not driving mass migration to the Global North. That doesn't mean those most affected don’t need help.

15/04/2022

Happy Easter!

14/12/2021

Bargaining Benchmarks | December 2021

Know the benchmarks that will help you to enter bargaining processes as an informed role player -> https://bit.ly/3GHaXzf

08/12/2021

08/12/2021

Kenyan woman dies in Saudi Arabia 10 days after starting cleaner job

Migrant workers need protection

Lucy Wanja went to the Middle-East nation on September 12, 2021, after years of attempting to get a job in the gulf with the hope of making an income. More.

05/12/2021

03/12/2021

After maids die in Saudi Arabia, Kenyan relatives sound alarm

After maids die in Saudi Arabia, Kenyan relatives sound alarm

03/12/2021

Check out today's Daily Monitor page 22 for an interview with our Executive Director, Ms. Jane Nalunga

Uganda Media Women's Association Uganda Investment Authority Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development Office of the Vice President of the Republic of Uganda Cefroht Uganda Cefroht FIDA Uganda Both ENDS

02/12/2021

# End the stigma in the workplace#

01/12/2021

Photos from ITUC's post

01/12/2021

Life on the line: Deadly risks for world's food delivery drivers

🗣 “When you get into an accident… You find out you're no better than a plastic cup.”

🛵 Food delivery drivers face immense risks to bring food straight to customers’ doors.👇

From Mumbai, Tbilisi to Rio de Janeiro, we ask food couriers about the immense risks they face each day to deliver the food we want, when we want it.

29/11/2021

Voices For Labour on Twitter

"proposals seek protection for platform workers against dismissal and adverse treatment and the right to compensation in cases in which their rights have been violated".

“"proposals seek protection for platform workers against dismissal and adverse treatment and the right to compensation in cases in which their rights have been violated". https://t.co/OQazkuT11E”

28/11/2021

Protection from sexual harassment and violence at work should not be enjoyed by only employees under a contract of employment but the same should extend to workers in the informal economy. covers this! Uganda should

28/11/2021

Free the world of work from violence and harassment

https://voicesforlabour.org/The workplace should be safe for everyone, everywhere. The ILO Convention No. 190 aims to end all forms of violence and harassme...

28/11/2021

28/11/2021

More than 2 billion workers make up the informal economy

"Informal employment refers to the very large labor force that falls outside of protective labor laws, outside of different forms of social protection and really outside of access to justice," says Dr. Sally Roever, International Coordinator of the global research and policy network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). "The majority of workers in the informal economy are trying to make a living against great odds," she adds.

The informal economy employs 6 out of every 10 workers in the world—and the economic recovery of these workers is a critical component of a global economic rebound from the Covid-19 crisis.

28/11/2021

28/11/2021

Food delivery drivers question gig platforms' safety nets

"As they face rising risks on the road, food delivery drivers around the world are pushing gig platforms for better working conditions"

As they face rising risks on the road, food delivery drivers around the world are pushing gig platforms for better working conditions