Collective bargaining settlement of collective disputes: a comparative analysis between international standards and Tanzanian labour law

This work is composed of five chapters. The enactment of the Employment and Labour Relations Act, 2004 and the Labour Institutions Acts, 2004 is the main reason, inter- alia, which prompted the researcher to embark on writing this work. The 2004 Acts are aimed at restructuring the whole of the labour system and alleviate all those problems that entangled labour grievance settling mechanisms. However, there is no any single author who has made a through scrutiny on the manner and extent the 2004 Acts provide a solutions to those prevailing problems. Thus this work is intended to gauge the adequacy and/or inadequacy of the employment and Labour Relations Act, 2004 and the Labour Institutions act, 2004 in solving the shortcomings that existed for many years in our labour legislation. The researcher has employed both primary and secondary data collection methods and has examined new labour legislation while making a comparative analysis between collective bargaining standards set by ILO with those set by the Employment and Labour Relations Acts, 2004. In concluding, the researcher is of the view that problems that have persisted in labour law legislation ever-since independence in relation to collective bargaining are greatly resolved by the new legislation.