COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course gives the scope and status and sources of labour law as applicable in the United Republic of Tanzania in particular and at common law at large as well as different legal theories and concepts underlying relating to labour law and labour relations. The course starts by exploring the development of labour law in Tanzania, were students will be exposed to a historical perspective as well as the current status of the labour laws in Tanzania.
The course will then provide students with important aspects and concepts in labor laws including the contract of employment, formation, obligation of parties, express and implied terms in labor contracts, termination and suspension of a contract and remedies for the breach. Other aspects like statutes affecting employment terms in regards to formal requirements, wages, notice of termination, suspension, redundancy, hours of work, rest day and holidays, children and women in employment.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Develop
their knowledge of the law relating to labour relations.
- Enhance
their knowledge in labour concepts and labour principles such as, contract of
services and contract of services, employer and employee relationships, rights
and duties of employer and employee,
- Enhance
their intellectual, interpersonal and transferable skills as well as developing
other skills including independent research, legal search and skills on solving
labour disputes by applying well established rules of law
- Research,
problem solving, and critical awareness of current Problems in respect to the
labour relations; and labour law issues in general,
COURSE CONTENT
Theoretical foundation of the labour laws and relations
- Labour instruments (local and international) , employment contracts and
contracts of employment, public services versus the private sector labour
relations and systems
- Fundamental rights and employment
standards, redundancies, strikes, layoffs and discharge, workmen’s
compensation; trade unions
- Collective bargaining, industrial
disputes, actions and resolutions;
- Dispute settlement machinery
- Social security schemes and
pensions.
COMPULSORY READING MATERIALS
- Alexander H
Sarris Et Al, 1969, Economic Policy And Household Welfare During Crisis And
Adjustment In Tanzania, New York University Press New York
- Arkadie Van
Ben, 1969, Private Foreign Investment:
Some Limitations, D.A Thomas (Ed) Private Enterprise And East Africa
Company, Tanzania Publishing House, Dar Es Salaam.
- Burnerjee
R. N, (1963), Industrial wars and Industrial Relations in India, New age
Publishers Private Ltd
OPTIONAL READING MATERIALS
- Chorock
K.C., 1944, The Welfare Of African Labourer In Tanganyika, Government Printer,
Dar Es Salaam
- Dias C.
Tanzania Nationalisation 1967 – 1970
- Edward and
Mildred Marcus, Investment and Development Possibilities In Tropical Africa
- Nyalali F.
L 1975, Aspects of industrial conflicts, EALB, Dar es Salaam.