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I am employed as a driver assigned to drive the managing director of our company. Recently I worked on a day that was declared a public holiday by the President. Am I entitled to be paid an allowance for working on a public holiday? Kindly guide. FG, Dodoma According to section 25 of the Employment […]
Our accountant, who is foreigner stole, our company’s money and fled to his home country. He was arrested there by the international police. After the arrest, he made a suspect statement to a police officer who is a citizen of his home country and he confessed stealing the company’s money. We would like to know […]
Suspect statement by foreign agent Our accountant, who is foreigner stole, our company’s money and fled to his home country. He was arrested there by the international police. After the arrest, he made a suspect statement to a police officer who is a citizen of his home country and he confessed stealing the company’s money. […]
I am a form four leaver doing private business. My cousin is asking me to lend him my form four academic certificate as he wants to use it to apply for a job in a private company. Is this a crime? I really want to help him to secure this job as the job market is […]
My relative who is a herbalist was found in possession of one horn of impala which he uses for traditional healing. He is now charged with unlawful possession of government trophy namely impala worth only USD 390. Can the impala horn have such value really? Is this value not maliciously inflated? PP, Tabora Valuation of […]
What is the procedure for challenging an assessment of property rates? Is the affected party required to follow the same procedure provided under the Tax Administration Act, 2015? OP, Moshi Regulation 15 of the Local Government Authorities Rating (Collection of Property Rates) Regulations, 2020 (GN No.1 of 2020) requires a rate payer aggrieved by the […]
I do not believe in marriages and luckily am not married but have a child with my girlfriend. I have been having an argument with my employer, who is very unhappily married, that I am entitled to paternity leave notwithstanding that the child is born out of wedlock? He is confidently refusing saying that the […]
Paternity leave for a child born out of wedlock I do not believe in marriages and luckily am not married but have a child with my girlfriend. I have been having an argument with my employer, who is very unhappily married, that I am entitled to paternity leave notwithstanding that the child is born out […]
Legal Update – 29 March 2021
I work for a private company and recently signed a mutual separation agreement with my employer. One of the terminal dues agreed upon was 3 months’ remuneration in lieu of notice of termination of my employment. When I went to collect my terminal dues I was surprised to be told that my 3 months’ notice […]
When I was a teenager I had sexual intercourse with a girl and got a child with her. Since I was still in school, I did not marry her. Recently I learnt that my child was attending secondary school but staying with her grandmother and her mother is married to another man. Last year I […]
I work for a private company and contribute to the National Social Security Fund. I took a personal loan from a savings and credit cooperative society popularly known as a SACCOS and pledged my pension benefit as a security for the loan. Am I allowed to do that and Is this contract valid in law? […]
My aunt was found selling charcoal without a permit to sell or buy forest produce. At the time of her arrest she had already sold a number of bags of charcoal and had some amount of cash in her poach. She is now being charged with selling forest produce without a licence contrary to the […]
Selling charcoal and money laundering My aunt was found selling charcoal without a permit to sell or buy forest produce. At the time of her arrest she had already sold a number of bags of charcoal and had some amount of cash in her poach. She is now being charged with selling forest produce without […]
I live in a squatter and have been informed by our Mtaa Chairman that the Government intends to regularise our settlements and we shall be given a certificate of occupancy at the end of the regularisation project. Because in the squatter we have very small plots, I am afraid my plot may be merged with […]
I was put under arrest for a certain offence and taken to the police. Surprisingly, although I am a man, I was searched by a female police officer. Is this allowed under our laws? AJ, Arusha Unfortunately there is no express provision of the law that bars a female police from searching the body of […]
I am running a beef butcher. I want to switch to a game meat butcher. What am I supposed to do to change the nature of business from beef selling to game meat selling? MM, Simiyu Game meat selling is highly regulated in order to safeguard against poaching. The compliance requirements for operating a game […]
Requirements for running game meat butcher I am running a beef butcher. I want to switch to a game meat butcher. What am I supposed to do to change the nature of business from beef selling to game meat selling? MM, Simiyu Game meat selling is highly regulated in order to safeguard against poaching. The […]
I was taken in for police interview and spent the entire day from 9am to 7pm, and then admitted to bail after having to plead with the officer that I did not want to be held in custody as it was a minor bailable offence which i was denying in any case. I was told […]
We are carrying out restructuring of our company and have decided to phase out some of the positions in the new organisational structure. One of our employees whose position has been phased out in the new structure has refused an alternative job we offered him in another company of ours. She is arguing that she […]
If a traditional healer prescribes sexual intercourse with a client as a form of examination or treatment for an ailment and the client consents on belief that she will get healed, does that constitute rape? PO, Dar It is an unethical and an offence for a traditional healer to have sexual intercourse with a client. […]
Intercourse as a form of treatment If a traditional healer prescribes sexual intercourse with a client as a form of examination or treatment for an ailment and the client consents on belief that she will get healed, does that constitute rape? PO, Dar It is an unethical and an offence for a traditional healer to […]
My neighbor has placed a number of beehives in a tree whose shade gets into my house. I am very conscious about my beauty and thus use perfumes and lotion with strong scents. I am worried the bees might attack me because of this scent. What can I do legally? LJ Arusha The law which […]
I asked my friend to collect my rent allowance from our cashier on my behalf. After taking the money he signed the pay-list on my behalf. He is now being accused of forgery on the ground that he signed the pay-list purporting to be me. Is there anything wrong he did as the money was […]
I have been seeing advertisements of traditional and alternative medicine remedies that are claimed to have the efficacy of enlarging male sexual organs and even boosting men’s sexual power amongst others. Is there any law that regulates these immoral advertisements of such traditional and alternative medicine remedies? PP, Dar Advertisements of traditional and alternative medicine […]
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