The Ministry of Public Service and Labour and Rwanda National Police (RNP) held a meeting with owners and managers of private security companies in an effort to streamline their private security services in compliance with the labour law.
The meeting held at the RNP General Headquarters in Kacyiru presented a report from an inspection conducted jointly by the Ministry and RNP on the labour law compliance.
The report highlights 17 key components of the labour law, including employee contracts, social security contribution, payment of employees, fair pay, working hours, provision of medical insurance, annual leave, maternity leave and breast feeding hour; rest, overtime remuneration, and principle of equal pay for equal work, among others.
Some private security service providers don’t give contracts to their employees, no medical insurance, delayed payment, make illegal deduction of employees’ salaries, no annual and maternity leave; employees work overtime with no remuneration, and lack internal rules and regulations among others.
He reminded them to award well packaged contracts to their employees, provide their social security premiums, ensure gender balance, and to respect annual and maternity leave.
Commissioner of Police (CP) John Bosco Kabera, Commissioner for Infrastructure Security and Private Security Providers (ISPSP) in RNP, said that private security firms are also governed by the labour law.
He said that a follow up inspection will be conducted to find out if private security companies have implemented the recommendations of the first report.
“All the violations that were highlighted in the report should be given due attention by concerned security companies because the next step will be sanctions violating the labour law,” CP Kabera said.
Owners of private security service providers recommitted to address the issues that were raised in the reports and to realign their security services with the Rwandan labour law. (End)