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• TITLE: Harmonization of Pension Legislation in the Countries of the East African Community: An Urgent Necessity?

  AUTHORS: Richard Ndikumana

  KEYWORDS: East African Community, Pension Rights, Portability of Rights, Social Legislation

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Social Sciences, Vol.11 No.12, December 8, 2023

  ABSTRACT: Pension funds are the main source of income for retired workers in the East African Community, as in the rest of the world. The aim of this article is to analyze the means of implementing the pension rights of retired workers in the East African Community, who are free to move and work anywhere within the community. We used documentary techniques to collect data, and legal criticism of the legal texts of the seven member countries of the Community to analyze the data. The results reveal that the legislative systems of these different Community member states, despite the will expressed in the treaty establishing this Community to grant freedom of movement within the Community, are not uniformly clear-cut on the work of Community nationals. As a result, the enforcement of their pension rights is called into question. Among the 7 countries, Kenyan legislation provides for equality of opportunity in the recruitment of workers, and organizes retirement in such a way as to protect the interests of the worker going into retirement. In Rwanda, retiring workers receive their retirement benefits in full, while in other countries, they receive periodic contributions from other members of the social security institution of which they are a member.