Uganda, May 5 -- One of the talking points from this year's commemoration of the Labour Day was the renewed demands by leaders of the labour movement for government to enact laws that will support the adoption of a living wage.

Government has for several decades now been opposed to the introduction of a living wage. The argument has been that it is yet to study and arrive at what the ramifications of fixing a minimum wage would have on investments and the economy.

That was one of the arguments advanced in August 2019 when President Museveni declined to assent to the Minimum Wages Bill, 2018, which had sought to empower the minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development to appoint a Minimum Wages Board to fix minimum wages for various...