LEGAL DEPARTMENT

Through CESTRAR’s legal department, we receive and make analysis of workers claims, giving advice and assisting workers in drafting conclusions that are taken for labour inspection or to courts. Facilitating in mediation and promoting social dialogue, CESTRAR has trained over 300 paralegals at company level in different workplaces to manage and deal with internal conflicts and disputes.

EDUCATION & RESEARCH DEPARTMENT

Skills developments of workers representatives is an essential activity to enable them acquire necessary knowledge for their missions.
CESTRAR provides several training sessions on labour laws, negotiation techniques, occupational safety and health at work, leadership, social security and social protection.

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Letter to the Minister of Labour and Public Service(MIFOTRA) on Restructuring and Rationalizing public institutions

Based on the ongoing restructuring and rationalizing process for the public institutions, and following a lot of concerns expressed by...

Position paper on the effects of Covid-19 on Rwandan workers and urgent policy responses

CESTRAR, Confederation of Trade Unions in Rwanda, with an affiliation of 17 workers’ unions, and a membership currently 185,700 from...

Awareness meeting in SORWATHE

During our usual awareness campaigns on worker’s right we Visited 99 workers representing units, departments, plantations, in SORWATHE Factory

CESTRAR’s achievements in the past years are a clear sign and hope for the furtherance of labor rights and socio-economic conditions of workers. Taking from these achievements and building on its strengths and opportunities, CESTRAR is playing an important role in advocating, lobbying, educating and training as an important tool in furthering its work. The following years will bring more achievements, more decent jobs, better working conditions, more equal pay, better health and safety and better cooperation with the stake holders.