Human Resource Services

Overview

Mercio Advocates provides a full suite of human resource services aimed at helping businesses find, manage, and retain top talent while streamlining HR operations. Our comprehensive solutions are designed to reduce your HR burden while improving the quality of your workforce management.

We offer personnel outsourcing, which connects companies with carefully vetted professionals for temporary or long-term roles. Our comprehensive recruitment services handle everything from drafting job descriptions to conducting interviews, ensuring you find the right talent for your needs.

We also provide expert contract drafting to create customized, legally compliant employment agreements that protect business interests. By managing these critical functions with precision and legal expertise, we enable organizations to focus on their core goals while ensuring their workforce strategies are effective, compliant, and tailored to their specific needs.

Our Services

Personnel outsourcing for temporary and long-term roles
Comprehensive recruitment services
Expert employment contract drafting
Workplace policy development
Compliance with Ugandan labor laws
Disciplinary proceedings management
Redundancy and termination management
Legal and financial risk reduction

Benefits

Connect with carefully vetted professionals
Customized, legally compliant employment agreements
Reduce legal and financial risks
Avoid costly employment disputes
Ensure compliance with labor laws
Focus on your core business goals

Service Details

Vetted professional outsourcing

Expert contract drafting

Labor law compliance

Frequently Asked Questions

The main difference is that an employee's relationship is created under a "contract of service" while independent contractors are hired under a "contract for services". A contract of service is one, oral or written, express or implied, where one agrees to work for an employer in return for remuneration. The employer controls the work of the employee by setting working hours and dictating how a particular task should be done. On the other hand, independent contractors are usually separate entities or individuals hired for a specific task. They set their own working hours and present invoices for payment, unlike employees who receive a monthly salary.

The normal working hours are generally 48 hours per week, unless otherwise agreed, provided the arrangement complies with the Employment Act.

Summary dismissal is where an employer fires an employee instantly, without notice or with less notice than that to which the employee is entitled.

An employer may dismiss an employee summarily where the employee has, by his or her conduct, indicated that he or she has fundamentally breached obligations arising under the contract of service. Such dismissal shall be termed as justified. Under common law, circumstances considered as justifying summary dismissal include: serious misconduct (positive, intentional, or willful wrongdoing); willful refusal to obey a lawful and reasonable instruction; and incompetence and neglect.

Constructive dismissal is a situation where an employee resigns due to the conduct of an employer. The contract of service is ended by the employee with or without notice, as a consequence of unreasonable conduct on the part of the employer towards the employee.

Yes, but it depends on how long the employee is absent due to illness. The law in Uganda allows an employer to terminate the contract of service of an employee who is absent for more than 2 months.

Only lawful deductions are permitted, such as taxes, NSSF contributions, court-ordered deductions, or deductions authorized by law or agreed upon by the employee.

Yes, an employee who has completed at least six months of continuous service is generally entitled to at least 21 working days of paid annual leave.

Employment disputes may be resolved through: Internal grievance procedures; Labor officers; Mediation and conciliation; The Industrial Court; Appeals to the Court of Appeal on points of law where applicable.