Date of publication:

04/22/2025

Uganda

Do domestic laws and policies provide fair remuneration for forcibly displaced and stateless persons?

ANALYSIS

Assessment by population

Assessment by population
Refugees
Asylum-seekers
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.

Refugees
Asylum-seekers
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.

    LAW & POLICY

    Related provisions of domestic law or policy

    Employment Act (2006)

    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.