The Social Security Fund of Rwanda SSFR yesterday held a one-day sensitisation meeting with employers in Kigali City. The meeting held at Alpha Palace hotel was intended to train and sensitise employers on their roles and responsibilities on issues regarding registration of their employees with the fund. Among the issues pointed out was the fact that some employers in Kigali City have not registered their employees with the Social Security Fund, an action that violates their rights as workers. The law stipulates that an employer is supposed to register his or her employee in the first eight days of reporting for duty. “We called this meeting so that we could get some things clear with the employers in Kigali city. We want to address the escalating cases of the many employers not following proper guidelines, and others who don’t even bother to register their employees with the Social Security Fund of Rwanda,” said Oswald Munyandekwe, the Director of Contributions and Benefits at the SSFR. During an interview with The New Times, Munyandekwe revealed that the SSFR was trying all possible strategies to see that every worker in Rwanda, is registered so that everyone benefits. He also added that other policy measures are being put into consideration to tally with the modern day Social Security Fund needs. “We are reviewing the social policy so that SSFR can diversify and adopt a policy where young employees can also benefit from the social security products when still young, as opposed to the predominant policy of getting benefits only when one is old or dead,” added Munyandekwe. He further pointed out that this meeting was one of many they had conducted and that they have always added something significant in their operations and the general running of SSFR programmes. During the meeting, it was revealed that SSFR, in collaboration with the East and Central African Social Security Association, is currently coordinating and following up former employees who worked in the different East African countries so that they could get their benefits. Ends
