A Compulsory Research Report Submitted to Mzumbe University – Mbeya Campus College in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Award of Degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) of Mzumbe University.
A disability is a permanent injury, illness or physical or mental condition that tends to restrict the way that someone can live their life. Due to those difficulties, people with disabilities faces a lot of challenges especially in the employment sector. They are discriminated through not being employed because of disability even if they are qualified. Different legislations and National policy have been passed to promote and protect the employment rights of the disabled people unfortunately the problem still persists.
This study focuses on the analysis of the adequacy of the laws governing persons with disability in securing employment in Tanzania specifically at the Dar es Salaam region. In fulfilling this, the research has been divided into four chapters. The objectives of this study was to examine the adequacy of the law in protecting the right of people with disabilities to secure employment and establish whether there is a need to revisit the law in ensuring that disabled people are adequately protected in securing employment.
In this study data was mainly collected through questionnaires, interviews, library research and documentary reviews from various institutions. Findings of the research shows that despite Tanzania enactment of laws that guarantee protection against discrimination of persons with disabilities in working places yet PWDs are marginalized resulting to low number of employed PWDs due to reasons such as inadequacy of the laws, lack of financial resources, society stigma, low level of education and lack of follow ups in implementing the laws.
Finally, the last chapter contains conclusion and recommendations such as the proper implementation of the disability and legislation, the government to make strategic review of the laws governing people with disabilities in securing employment and enhancement of education on the rights of persons with disabilities.