The Ministry of Employment, Labour and Social Security on Tuesday 18th July 2023 held a stakeholders’ consultative workshop for inputs into a zero draft document that constitutes regulations of the Employment Act, 2023. It could be recalled that the ministry completed a review of Sierra Leone’s obsolete labour laws, resulting in six reviewed Labour Bills.

Three of those six bills were enacted by the House of Parliament in March this year; to become ‘The Employment Act, 2023, Work Permit Act, 2023, and Overseas Employment and Migrant Workers’ Act, 2023’.

To facilitate its successful implementation to achieve its desired goals in the employment space however, the law needed a regulation to guide its processes. Hence, the one-day stakeholders’ consultative workshop which took place at the Vanilla Complex in Aberdeen.

A PowerPoint presentation of the zero draft employment regulation document was delivered by representatives of the Osman Jalloh and Partners Law Firm (OJP Legal), the consultant law firm handling the development of the regulation.

Participants of the workshop were drawn from every region of the country, and they were spilt into groups, by region, to read the regulation, identify gaps; and provide inputs and recommendations to the content of the zero draft document.