The efficacy of Tanzania labour law in protecting the rights of Casual employees in Sugar industries.

Mwalyaje,, Angetile (2024) The efficacy of Tanzania labour law in protecting the rights of Casual employees in Sugar industries. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The objective of the study was to examine the efficacy of Tanzania labour law in protecting the rights of casual employees in sugar industries by using Kagera sugar Ltd and Mtibwa Sugar Estates as case study. The study explored the position of old and contemporary labour law in protecting the rights of casuals. The study used a descriptive method and a sample of 369 respondents to test whether casuals were more protected in the old labour law compared with the contemporary labour law. The study used Statistical Package for Social Sciences to analyze the collected data and the results show that health insurance,leaves,overtime pay,collective bargaining rights,Personal Protective Equipments, bonus pay and sugar incentives are not being offered to casual employees but to full time employees only. Casuals get only those generic rights like none-discrimination and rights against forced labour and that some casuals are well qualified and most of them have been working with the selected Organisations for a period of more than one year in the same jobs. It is recommended that Kagera Sugar Ltd and Mtibwa Sugar Estates should change the employment status of the long serving casuals to either specific task or fixed term contract. That Tanzania Plantation Workers Union (TPAWU) and the Management of the two Organisations add a clause in their Collective Baragaining Agreements (CBAs) which will require casuals to pay an agency fee to TPAWU so that some terms and conditions agreed upon in the CBAs are extended to casual employees. That the Government should amend section 14 of the Employment and Labour Relations Act of 2004 to recognize and regulate casual employment in Tanzania. Keywords: Casual Employee, Casuals’ Skills, Labour Law and Employees’ Rights.

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