Casual Workers in Tanzania : Enforceability, Achievements and Challenges

It is highly surprised that casual workers in some of countries’ labour legislations are treated as of no values despite experiencing the same constitutional rights as permanent employees. They work hard as a normal employee and sometimes if not most of the time more than some normal employees but experiencing low coverage of wages. Although sometimes they are paid well according to the working hours spent, this mostly depends on the nature and background of their employers. Employers are not obligated to offer casual workers with an employee reimbursements compendium that full-time, permanent employees receive. This entails that most of them do not obtain paid vacations, retreats, breaks, holidays, or sick leave, and employer's annuity and health protection strategies do not customarily embrace them. It is rarely seen for labour legislations in Tanzania to include a casual worker as an employee.This manuscript intends to make an analysis on the position of casual workers in Tanzania, by looking at a number of labour legislations so as to make a determination as to how does these employment legislations have provided for the recognition and protection of casual workers in Tanzania. It also entails at estimating possible reasons for the recruitment of casual workers, disadvantages of recruitment of casual workers, and the challenges facing casual workers before, during and after being recruited by the employers. In the end it is the conclusion whereby the position of casual workers in Tanzania is seen and the possible solutions to suppress violations of casual worker’s rights