TITLE:
Analysis of the Effectiveness of Portability of Pension Rights for Migrant Workers in the Framework of the CEPGL
AUTHORS:
Richard Ndikumana
KEYWORDS:
East African Community, Pension Rights, Portability of Rights, Social Legislation, Effectiveness of Rights, Migrant Workers, CEPGL General Convention, ILO’s Conventions
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.12,
December
7,
2023
ABSTRACT: The UN knows over 272 million international migrants among whom two-thirds are workers who retire time after time needing to acquire their
pensions and other benefits. Using a documentary technique,
we realized there are many ILO Conventions and the General Convention in CEPGL
protecting workers whether themselves or their family members. In accommodation
to these international conventions, East Africa adopted a protocol denoting
movement of peoples and goods which denotes workers’ movement within the
community. Using documentary techniques through the reports of the institutions
controlling pensions, results show that every year for the fulfillment of these
conventions, Burundi and Rwanda pay pensions to retirees who worked in Burundi
but went back to their home country in retirement. However, DR-Congo does not
send these pensions to retirees who worked in it but came back home in Burundi
or went back home in Rwanda after retiring. Reciprocally, Burundi and Rwanda do
no longer pay them. In all circumstances beneficiaries are victims of
reciprocal measures taken by countries in regard to pension payment in
retirement when they go back home from their former working country.