The use of artificial intelligence in legal practice has moved rapidly from an issue of technological innovation to one of professional responsibility. Generative artificial intelligence can assist with legal research, document review, translation, drafting and the organisation of large volumes of materials. It can produce authoritative looking but also false case names, citations, quotations and legal propositions.
IMMMA Advocates has employment and labor relations practices in Tanzania. Our team has extensive experience in advising employers on lawful termination procedures, the fundamental rights and protections afforded by employment and labor laws, issues concerning workman’s compensation, social security payments, severance pay and other terminal benefits, employment contracts, trade unions and collective agreements and retrenchment.
Experience has included advising:
- Pact Tanzania, Intra-Health, Save the Children and World Education Inc. (WEI) in a restructuring process which lead to retrenchment of employees
- Intra-Health on retrenchment following restructuring and closure of some of its projects
- The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation on the procedures under the Tanzanian labor laws for retrenchment for operational reasons
- Global Fluids International (GFI), JICA on the labor regime in Tanzania relating to termination on grounds of poor performance
- On the review of employment contracts and Human Resources Manuals on behalf of CCBRT, JICA, Colgate-Palmolive, Save the Children, I-Tech, the Embassy of Denmark, the Royal Norwegian Embassy and NRC
On all employment and labor matters, including disputes, during the privatization and re-organization of the National Microfinance Bank Limited and the National Bank of Commerce Limited - JICA, Facebook Inc and Asco Holding Norge AS on the implication and applicability of Workman’s Compensation Act of 2002 as amended in 2008
- Training and seminars on employment and labor related matters to Statoil Tanzania As and AEL.
- Ndovu Resources in relation to employment standards and advised a proposed restructuring of its operations posts at Mtwara base.
- New Forest Company Limited in undertaking disciplinary procedures against a number of its employees
Impact on employment contracts in foreign currency and the way forward
With the establishment of the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) following the enactment of the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), 2022, Tanzania has made significant progress in strengthening personal data protection across both public and private sectors.
On February 16, 2024 the Bank of Tanzania (the Bank) issued and published for the first time a subsidiary legislation on compulsory liquidation of banks and financial institutions.
This is an update to our Data Protection Laws of the World: Tanzania dated 26 January 2023, which provided an overview of the Personal Data Protection Act, 2022.