Date of publication:
04/22/2025
Uganda
Do domestic laws and policies provide fair remuneration for forcibly displaced and stateless persons?
Assessment by population
Analysis
Uganda has no laws that regulates the minimum wage and the draft Minimum Wage Bill that was tabled in the parliament has not yet enacted.
Section 6(3) Employment Act (2006) - Discrimination in employment shall be unlawful and for the purposes of this Act, discrimination includes any distinction, exclusion or preference made on the basis of race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin, the HIV status or disability which has the effect of nullifying or impairing the treatment of a person in employment or occupation, or of preventing an employee from obtaining any benefit under a contract of service.
Section 6(6) & (7) Employment Act (2006). The Minister and the Labour Advisory Board shall, in performing their duties, seek to give effect to the principle of equal remuneration for male and female employees for work of equal value. Every employer shall pay male and female equal remuneration for work of equal value.
Analysis
Uganda has no laws that regulates the minimum wage and the draft Minimum Wage Bill that was tabled in the parliament has not yet enacted.
Section 6(3) Employment Act (2006) - Discrimination in employment shall be unlawful and for the purposes of this Act, discrimination includes any distinction, exclusion or preference made on the basis of race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin, the HIV status or disability which has the effect of nullifying or impairing the treatment of a person in employment or occupation, or of preventing an employee from obtaining any benefit under a contract of service.
Section 6(6) & (7) Employment Act (2006). The Minister and the Labour Advisory Board shall, in performing their duties, seek to give effect to the principle of equal remuneration for male and female employees for work of equal value. Every employer shall pay male and female equal remuneration for work of equal value.
Related provisions of domestic law or policy
Employment Act (2006)
- Year: 2006
- Type: Domestic law
- Rights Category: Work & Workplace rights
- Link to external source: https://ulii.org/akn/ug/act/2006/6/eng@2006-06-08#part_VII__sec_65
Legal provision
Section 6(3) - Discrimination in employment
Discrimination in employment shall be unlawful and for the purposes of this Act, discrimination includes any distinction, exclusion or preference made on the basis of race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin, the HIV status or disability which has the effect of nullifying or impairing the treatment of a person in employment or occupation, or of preventing an employee from obtaining any benefit under a contract of service.
Section 6(7) - Discrimination in employment
Every employer shall pay male and female equal remuneration for work of equal value.