The Protection of Workers’ Rights in Cameroon; An Appraisal. First-degree thesis by Ngoe Leviss Itoe
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The respect and protection of workers’ right is one of the greatest priorities of many states in the world and Cameroon in particular. Over the past years, Cameroon through it institutional mechanisms have failed in the protection and implementation of these rights regulating the protection of workers. It has been observed that instruments for the protection of workers’ right have some great progress in the field of drafting the legislations but acquire a great failure in their implementations. This is because there is no efficient regulatory force to implement the laws and even if they are available, they hardly carryout their activities effectively.
As a priority of every state to protect the rights of its workers, regulations have been put in place to protect workers’ rights in time of crises like Civil Wars and general or serious Pandemic affecting the world like the COVID-19. As such, the government of Cameroon has put the measure of protecting workers’ rights against the pandemic by closing institutions so as to fight the pandemic as per paragraph 21 of the preamble of the Cameroon constitution and per Part VI chapter(s) I and II of the Labour Code.
However, though serious measures have been put in place to protect workers against the pandemic, some workers like civil servants and those teaching in the private sectors have suffered greatly. For instance, teachers in the private sectors like those teaching in the Presbyterian Institutions have suffered greatly in the course of this pandemic as their salaries have greatly been deducted against the provisions of part iv, chapter iii, section 75(1) of the Labour Code as well as failure to pay them on time
- The purpose of this research is to examine Cameroon’s effectiveness in the protection of workers’ rights
- To examine the national laws regulating the protection of workers’ right in Cameroon.
- To examine International Conventions regulating the protection of workers’ right in Cameroon.
- To examine the role of courts in the protection of workers’ right in Cameroon.
- To make policy recommendations to redress the problems raised.
Research Methodology
The research method used in this work is going to be purely doctrinal which is commonly used in law. This research adopts the qualitative method. This method is suitable for this research because it analysis the problem and does not make use of statistical data. The sources of data here are both primary and secondary data. Primary data is obtained from the International Labour Organisation (ILO), International Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Right, (ICESCR), Cameroon Labour Code (CLC), AND Cameroon Constitution, (CC). Secondary data include journals, newspapers, articles, and computerized work.
The research is confined to the role of the national and international laws regulating the protection of workers’ right in Cameroon. Geographically, though the research covers the state of Cameroon, it shall equally discuss on the role of international conventions regulating workers’ right in the world since Cameroon has duly ratified some of these conventions. This work shall be examined between the periods of 1992 when the state of Cameroon effectively ratified international laws regulating workers right in the Labour Code.
Justification for the Study:
This topic is aimed at ensuring the attainment of the following points listed below which with it been reached, it will be for the benefits of both the researcher and the reader. The following point goes thus;
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