Uganda, May 2 -- President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on May 1 demanded that companies recruit employees on a permanent rather than a temporary basis. If this declaration is carried out, it will impose mandatory employment contracts and set working conditions.

"Some employers are not Christians, instead of using permanent labour, they are using casual laborers," he said, adding, "Even if I am getting a low salary because we are still sorting the issues of electricity, I should be permanent, not casual; coming today and coming tomorrow. That one (hiring employees on permanent basis), I am going to insist on it," President Museveni was speaking at the national celebrations of the International Labour Day in the western Fort Portal City.

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