Despite having five youth representatives in parliament, many young Ugandans still face unemployment, underemployment, and labour exploitation. School dropouts are particularly vulnerable, often ending up in jobs with long hours of work and low pay. With Uganda's favorable business environment attracting investors, it's crucial we strengthen labour laws to protect young workers' rights like fair wages, reasonable work hours, leave days, and job security. Let's save our youth from becoming the cheap abundant labour.
To tackle youth exploitation, Uganda needs to enforce minimum wage laws for fair pay, implement strict work hour regulations, and strengthen labour inspection and enforcement. Providing vocational training for school dropouts is a step in the right direction, but coverage should be extended beyond subregional levels where it's still limited to district level. After attracting industries that create jobs for youth, there's now a need to prioritise descency of the jobs and improve access to social security, like NSSF, for young workers.
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