The Right to Peaceful Demonstration and the Protection of Workers’ Right: A Cameroonian Labor Law Perspective

Abstract

The concept of peace has been observed by many as a basic element in the preservation of dignity and unity of every State especially when dealing with nation building and security. The concept has been encouraged and recognized by many states who do not only consider such principle a fundamental one, but whose main aim and objective has been that of unity and protecting the national sovereignty and security of such a state. The maintenance of this fundamental principle has been felt in every day-to-day human relationship, especially those experienced by labor relations and operations. In the advent of forming, executing and terminating employment agreement, parties have those prerogative rights and obligations in respecting terms binding them in the employment relationship by carrying out specific obligations spelled out in the employment contract. The Cameroon Labor Code of 1992[1] has not been left out when dealing with relationships that exist between employer and employee in enforcing their basic employment rights and obligations. In situations or cases parties fails in performing what they agreed in the employment contract [2], either of the parties has the right in bringing an action against the other in breach of such obligations. One of such actions can be through demonstration by the workers against the employer in the employment engagements, who has failed in respecting the employment relationship. This demonstration can give rise to adverse effects, there by affecting the nature of the employment relationship.