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06/24/2025

Employment and Labour Relations Act

Year: 2004

Type: Domestic law

Rights Category: Work & Workplace rights

Description

The "Employment and Labour Relations Act No. 6 of 2004" is a Tanzanian law that consolidates the law relating to trade unions and trade disputes, aiming to promote sound labor relations and facilitate just, expeditious, and efficient dispute resolution. 

Selected provisions
Section 27.1 - Payment of remuneration

An employer shall pay to an employee any monetary remuneration to which the employee is entitledPayment
of renumeration
(a) during working hours at the place of work on the agreed pay
day,
(b) in cash, unless the employee agrees otherwise, in which case
the payment shall be made either by-
(i) cheque payable to the employee; or
(ii) direct deposit into an account designated by the
employee in writing; and
(c) in a sealed envelope, if the payment is made in cash or by
cheque

Section 7.10 - Equal remuneration for men and women

For the avoidance of doubt every employer shall take positive steps to guarantee equal remuneration for men and women for work of equal value.

Section 66 - Collective agreements

For the purposes of this Part -
(a) a ''bargaining unit''
(i) means any unit of employees in respect of which a
registered trade union is recognised, or is entitled to
be recognised, as the exclusive bargaining agent in
terms of this Part;
(ii) includes a unit of employees employed by more than
one employer; ''recognised trade union'' means a trade union recognised by a collective agreement or in respect of an order made by the Labour Court under the provisions of section 67;
(b) a ''registered trade union'' includes two or more registered
trade unions acting jointly

Section 94.1 - Jurisdiction of the Labour Court

Subject to the Constitution of the United Republic of
Tanzania, 1977, the Labour Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction over the application, interpretation and implementation of the provisions of this Act and to decide -
(a) appeals from the decisions of the Registrar made under Part
IV;
(b) reviews and revisions of -
(i) arbitrator's awards made under this Part;
(ii) decisions of the Essential Services Committee made
under Part VII;
(c) reviews of decisions, codes, guidelines or regulations made
by the Minister under this Act;
(d) complaints, other than those that are to be decided by
arbitration under the provisions of this Act;
(e) any dispute reserved for decision by the Labour Court under
this Act; and
(f) applications including -
(i) a declaratory order in respect of any provision of this Act; or
(ii) an injunction.

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