Implementation and Enforcement Mechanisms for Cameroonian Labour Law: An Eye View on Some Labour Institutions, Best Practices and Some Impediments

Abstract

This piece of work has as main objectives to critically carry out a comprehensive analysis of the various implementation and enforcement mechanism with regard to Cameroonian labour law, to off root some of the various impediments involves and to provide measures on how to deal with it. It however, demonstrates that Cameroon, like many other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, from time immemorial has established a principal legal framework governing both individual and collective labour relationship and has equally tries to strengthen its implementation and enforcement mechanism for labour law across the national territory. But despite her effort, the rate of implementation and enforcement mechanism for labour law is still not satisfactory at all. As a matter of fact, there still exist some sort of workplace exploitation such as workers not receiving the correct payment for work done, overdue salaries, workers being unfairly dismissed, exposure of workers to unsafe working conditions, instances of female workers being sexually harassed at places of work [1], the absent of a unified national standards to coordinate between the different implementation and enforcement mechanisms; and the resolution of dispute using the “arbitration approach before the trial court” has always been controversial in Cameroon. In connection with our above objectives we adopted an in-depth content analysis which is based on primary and secondary sources of data collection imperative to the study