DEMOTION ARISING FROM JOB RESTRUCTURING; CONSTRUCTIVE DISMISSAL: CASE REVIEW.
Introduction Research by the Economic Research Policy Center (ERPC) reveals that 420,000 Ugandans lost their jobs as a result of COVID-19 wiping out several jobs. In an effort to remain in business, most business entities took to downsizing their staff by laying off their employees while others aimed for other restructuring models that could help them increase their operational efficiency like creation of specific roles, combining certain positions and completely doing away with other positions within the structures of their organizations. Two year post COVID, various business entities and organizations in Uganda are still battling the economic effects of COVID amid law suits by their former employees for compensation as a result of unlawful and unfair terminations and dismissals, demotions, inadequate compensations, among others. The Industrial Court of Uganda has in (Batabane Anatoli v Busoga Forestry Co. Ltd (Labour Dispute Reference No. 015of 2021) reexamined the circu...