Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | High Court has declared illegal the attempted removal of Usher Wilson Owere as the Chairman General of the National Organisation of Trade Unions (NOTU) by a section of the organization’s leadership. In November 2022, a group led by the NOTU Secretary-General Peter Werike and Deputy …
Read More »NOTU calls for re-evaluation of NSSF real estate investments
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Organisation of Trade Unions (NOTU) has called for re-evaluation of the real estate investments of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) to suit the needs of the contributors. The Acting Chairman General NOTU, Musa Okello made the suggestion while appearing before the Select …
Read More »What is going on at NSSF?
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | The appointment early this month of Patrick Ayota as caretaker Managing Director at National Social Security Fund (NSSF), was supposed to be a temporary measure to allow the board and appointing authority conclude on either reinstating Richard Byarugaba as head or name a …
Read More »Gov’t downplays need to rush appointment of NSSF boss
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Trade Union Movement is concerned that the appointment of the new National Social Security Fund top management is taking long. The Chairman General of the National Organization of Trade Unions,-NOTU, Usher Wilson Owere, says that with the contract of the Managing Director, Richard Byarugaba …
Read More »NOTU spitting fire over delayed NSSF Bill
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Organization of Trade Unions (NOTU) has threatened to mobilize workers countrywide to protest the delayed processing of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) amendment bill. Although the NSSF Bill recently appeared under the business to follow for debate on the order paper, …
Read More »Incorporate business and human rights into national investment legal frameworks, government told
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda needs to incorporate guiding principles on business and human rights into the national investment regulatory frameworks to strike balance between the investor rights and the state, according to Jane Nalunga, the Executive Director at the Southern and Eastern African Trade Institute –SEATINI Uganda. Nalunga, who …
Read More »Workers want industrial court decentralized
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Organization of Trade Union (NOTU), the umbrella body for workers in Uganda is demanding for the decentralization of the Industrial court, noting that its concentration at the center is a huge challenge to the workers well being. The Industrial court was revived in …
Read More »Workers oppose COVID-19 testing fees without minimum wage
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Usher Wilson Owere, the chairperson general of the National Organization of Trade Unions-NOTU has joined those opposed to the newly introduced COVID-19 testing fees by the Health Ministry. According to the Ministry, each company that seeks to tests it employees will have to pay Shillings …
Read More »Uganda’s trade union body advises against social security demo
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Organisation of Trade Unions (NOTU) has said that it is against a planned demonstration by a section of savers against the National Social Security Fund- NSSF. Usher Wilson Owere, the Chairman General of NOTU says that the body is not part of …
Read More »Finance, Gender committee members support mid-term access to NSSF savings
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than half of the members of a joint committee that is scrutinizing the NSSF Amendment Bill have supported a provision that calls for midterm access to National Social Security Fund savings. The committee comprising legislators from the Finance and Gender committees, is currently reviewing …
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