Labour discrimination in Uganda: a case study of Uganda police force.
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Date
2016-09
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Kampala International University, School of Law
Abstract
The researcher will be interested in investigating the labour discrimination in
Uganda while focusing on police force as the area of interest. This was because
of the emerging issues concerning labour and labour rights which are sensitive
in the Uganda employment sector and one of the critical but often ignored
concepts is that concerned with labour discrimination. Uganda is characterized
by labour discrimination both in social, economic and political spheres of
society. In the labor economy, discrimination continues to prevail in terms of
recruitment and appointments, wage determination, promotion, gender
inequality and workplace violence among others. The researcher is necessary· .
since there is a need for a unified conceptual framework for gender inequality
and discrimination in the police force and routine information to increase
understanding of prevalent types, forms, and health systems consequences.
The study ":'ill employ mixed qualitative and quantitative methods to address
discrimination from several angles and better triangulate data. The population
of study will include the Uganda Police force, the Ministry of Public Ser-Vice, ·
officials from the Ministry of Labour and economic development the formal
sector and sections of the public. The officials of the police force will be both
senior and junior officers of the police force engaged in labour-management
and concerned offices. The study will employ information about this topic and
the information will ·be obtained from previous scholarly materials, written
articles, journal entries, newspaper articles, police publications, and labor
related booklets will be the main sources of literature connected with the
problem. Conclusion and recommendations will depend upon the researcher's
findings anci which will have been critically analyses to obtain the.real meaning
of the information. The recommendations will be made to police force, public .
service, ministry of gender labour and social development.
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A research report submitted to the school of Law in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the A ward of a Diploma in Law of Kampala International University
Keywords
Labour, Discrimination, Police, Force, Uganda