Abstract: Women have in the past being victims of discrimination. This discrimination equally existed in the employment sector in almost all States. In the wake of gender equality and non-discrimination, States began to adopt and established legislations which protected gender equality in all aspects of life. Cameroon as a State committed to the protection of human rights has ratified several human rights treaties protecting equality towards the enjoyment of the right to work. She has equally put in place laws guaranteeing equality in the enjoyment of the right to work; the main legislation is the Labour Code which came as a result of Law No. 92/007 of 14th August 1992. Section 2 of this code provides that “The right to work shall be recognized as a basic right of each citizen”. This code protects female workers as common workers and equally as special workers. Female workers as common workers enjoy the same rights as male workers some of which include the right to be paid damages for wrongful termination of the employment contract or specific reinstatement, the right to annual leave, the right to weekly rest, the right to join a trade union and so on. And as special workers they enjoy rights more than their male counterparts some of which include the right to maternity leave and nursing breaks. These special protection provided to female workers in reality is not always respected by employers as most female workers always waive their rights like the right to maternity in order to secure their employment and the prohibition of women from night work stands more as a limitation to the employment of women in certain establishments and thus this work recommends that instead of prohibiting female workers generally from night work, the legislation should instead prohibit night work just from expectant mothers and breastfeeding mothers.
Keywords: protection, worker, female worker.
Title: THE PROTECTION OF CAMEROON FEMALE WORKERS UNDER THE CAMEROON LABOUR CODE
Author: Ayuk Nkwa Pascal
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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