Covid and the law Archives – CEO East Africa

Employers May Be Held Accountable Incase of COVID-19 in Workplaces

URNBanking & Financial ServicesJuly 17, 2020

Employers may face lawsuits if their employees claim there was not much done to protect them against catching the Coronavirus (COVID-19) while at work. Speaking at the Federation of Uganda Employers’ zoom meeting on Wednesday afternoon, Medard Sseggona, a lawyer, said it is the employers’ role to provide necessary measures, training, tools, and ensure that ministry of Health guidelines are followed so that no employee catches the virus from work. This means it is the employers’ duty to provide hand washing water, masks, necessary social distancing, and sanitizers to workers – that measures that the government has indicated must be…

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Uganda: an assessment of Uganda’s legal response to the coronavirus (COVID-19)

theceomaThought LeadershipApril 14, 2020April 14, 2020

By Phillip Karugaba, Rehema Nakirya Ssemyalo and Tracy Kakongi Ten years ago, Uganda’s National Disaster Preparedness and Management Policy predicted that “an influenza pandemic may occur when a new influenza virus appears against which the human population has no immunity. With the increase in global transport, as well as urbanization and overcrowded conditions in some areas, epidemics due to a new influenza virus are likely to take hold around the world, and become a pandemic faster than before”. COVID-19, also known as the Coronavirus, is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that was declared…

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