The EAC COMMON MARKET AND HARMONISATION OF LABOUR LAWS
The EAC Common Market Protocol and the Harmonization of Labour Laws By Carolyne Khamati Mugalla East African Trade Union Confederation.
Introduction
The East African Community (EAC) brings together five member countries of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The block bids to create a single East African market that will entail easing travel restrictions, harmonizing tariffs, increasing co-operation among security forces, improving communications, sharing electrical power and addressing Lake Victoria issues, among others. All this will be achieved through the establishment of a Customs Union as the entry point of the Community and a Common Market. The next proposal is the creation of a Monetary Union and, ultimately, a Political Federation of the East African States.
