Uganda, May 6 -- Last week, Labour Day was commemorated in appreciation of worker's contribution to national development. The day is aligned to UPC's socialist idealogy of ending poverty, ignorance and disease. UPC endeavours to put workers at the centre of its development agenda since independence and that's why even the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) was started by UPC in 1969.

Be that as it is, there is also no minimum wage law in Uganda. The last law was passed by UPC in 1982. It put the minimum wage at 6,000. To date this has not been updated, all contributing to low productivity.

Workers in Uganda also have low productivity compared to their counterparts in East Africa. According to a 2023 report by the Economic Policy Resea...