The Right to Work and the Right to be Treated Fairly: Discussing the Legal and Economic Implications of Finding Work in Africa
The Experience of the Portuguese-Speaking African Countries: Angola and Mozambique
Foreward
Working is a fact inherent to human nature. The situation where an individual undertakes to render a given activity under the authority and guidance of a third party in consideration for any type of remuneration is an age-old institution.
In its early days, the employment relationship was a space for the conquest of basic rights and safeguards by employees and their union representatives. During modern times and with industrial and technological evolution, globalization, and the progressive rise of a more qualified and skilled workforce, the focal point seems to be shifting to questions related to the attraction, retention and adequate compensation of a company’s workforce so as to align a company’s human resources with business goals. All this evolution has taken place and will continue to occur in the context of a specific legal framework, reflecting the particular political and economic options of each country.
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