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Cameroon: Foreigners Must Obtain Permit to Work in Country - Employment Official
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The Post (Buea)
1 May 2008
Posted to the web 1 May 2008
Walter Wilson Nana
Buea
The Inspector General in the Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training, Dr. Henry Tatangang, has announced that foreigners would henceforth be expected to obtain work permits in order to work in Cameroon.
Dr. Tatangang was speaking to reporters in Buea, Thursday, April 24, while on a visit to the Institute of Vocational Training Centre, Buea. The visit to Buea constitutes part of his nationwide tour to sensitise his collaborators on corruption and employment issues launched in the ministry.
"We're reaching out to our collaborators to remind them of the fight against corruption we launched in the ministry, obstacles to good performance, clandestine activities in training centres and even in enterprises and industries that recruit expatriate workers without work permit. They are supposed to have a work permit from the Ministry of Employment before they start working," Tatangang said.
He argued that the acquisition of a residence permit by a foreigner is not a guarantee for him to work in Cameroon. "Once a foreigner has regularised his stay in Cameroon, he must get a work permit from the employment ministry before working."
It would not be the first time the ministry is enforcing the work permit regulation in Cameroon. "That's a law that exist. It existed under the Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of Employment has just inherited it. Our compatriots are expected to be regular elsewhere, so, those who come to Cameroon should also regularise their situation," Tatangnag said.
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The Inspector General told his Southwest collaborators that the development of Cameroon is a collective responsibility. "We should make efforts to train people so that they should be aware of what is expected of them and do it properly for the development of Cameroon. It is not the IMF, World Bank, African Development Bank that will develop our country for us if we don't do it," he advised.
According to the Inspector, the orientation at the primary, secondary and high school levels should go in partnership with the employment ministry, so that the training given to Cameroonians is professionalised and the individual equipped to create their own jobs.
Aloysius Fonkem, Meme Delegate of Employment and Vocational Training, enjoined employers to provide the services of social security schemes to their employees and to respect the 1995 salary scale instituted in Cameroon.
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