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    Limitations to the free movement of labour in the East African community: an analysis of Uganda’s commitment to the common market protocol
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 2016) Ainembabazi, Doreen
    The protocol establishing the common market in the East African community came into force in July 2010 fulfilling the provisions of articles 75 and 104 of the treaty establishing the East African community. One of the fundamental freedoms guaranteed in the EAC common market is free movement of workers who are citizens of other partner states within their territories. The protocol which establishes the common market read together with its annexes allows partner states to choose categories of workers who would be the initial beneficiaries of free labour mobility. The states chose highly skilled workers and in addition they individually gave differing time limits within which the implementation of the same would be realized. Uganda has since 2011 made attempts to implement the protocol but its efforts have been minimal. The study employed qualitative research methods of data collection and analysis to establish the extent to which the East African Community’s Common Market Protocol is able to realize free movement of workers within the territories of partner states and how far Uganda has implemented the protocol establishing the common market as a demonstration of commitment for the same. The study found that the continuing limitations to free movement of workers in the East African community emanate from the wording of the Common Market Protocol itself as well as the restrictive laws in member states with Uganda as the case study. It was therefore found that Uganda has demonstrated sluggishness in the implementation of the common market protocol due to reasons such as bureaucracy in legislative amendments, low finances budgeted for the ministry of East African community affairs and outright refusal to make integration matters a priority in some institutions. The study also revealed that generally the EAC has not yet enjoyed tangible benefits from the free movement of workers due highly restrictive categorization of workers to whom free labour mobility was opened up as well as demonstrated lack of political will by partner states. The study highlights salient features of the European Union labour migration legal framework and suggests the borrowing of a leaf from the European Union by the EAC in a bid to strengthen and realize a better common labor market.