Section 49: Your Right to an Itemized Pay Statement in Uganda
49.Pay statements
(1)Every employee shall receive with each payment of his or her wages an itemised pay statement from his or her employer, in writing, in a form and language which the employee may reasonably be expected to understand, which shall set out—
(a)the amount of every deduction from his or her wages due at the end of that particular pay period;
(b)the amount of every deduction from his or her wages during that pay period and the purpose for which each such deduction was made; and
(c)the employee's net wages payable at the end of that pay period.
(2)Where an employer fails to provide a pay statement as required by this section, or fails to provide a statement that is accurate, an employee shall have the right of complaint to a labour officer.
(3)A labour officer, following a complaint made under this section shall have the power to issue one or more written statements which shall take the place of any pay statements the employer has failed to issue, or amend any inaccuracies in any pay statement issued in respect of which a complaint has been made.
(4)A labour officer shall have the power to order the employer to pay to the employee the aggregate of any deductions from the employee's wages made by the employer in a manner that was not in accordance with an accurate pay statement.
(5)Any written statement issued by the labour officer in place of or in amendment of the employee's pay statement shall, for all purposes, be regarded as if it had been duly issued by the employer in accordance with subsection (I).
Plain English Summary
You have the right to receive an itemized pay statement in writing each time you are paid wages. The statement must be in a form and language you can ...
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