{"id":35577,"date":"2022-08-15T19:10:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T19:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/court-clothes-nssf-against-shs14b-pay-to-ex-utl-staff"},"modified":"2022-08-15T19:31:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T19:31:08","slug":"court-clothes-nssf-against-shs14b-pay-to-ex-utl-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/court-clothes-nssf-against-shs14b-pay-to-ex-utl-staff","title":{"rendered":"Court clothes NSSF against Shs14b pay to ex-UTL staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The Court of Appeal has quashed a High Court order directing the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) to refund Shs14b, which is the 10 percent employer contribution for more than 900 employees of Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL).<\/p>\n

In his lead decision, Justice Cheborion Barishaki said UTL\u2019s application for judicial review before the High Court was wrongly instituted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI find that the learned trial judge erred in entertaining UTL\u2019s applications as a case for judicial review. I would allow civil appeal 285 of 2016 and set aside the ruling and orders of the High Court \u2026and substitute instead with an order dismissing UTL\u2019s application for judicial review,\u201d Justice Cheborion ruled last week.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cUTL\u2019s judicial review application having been dismissed, follows that civil appeal no. 76 of 2018 concerning execution of the High Court arising from UTL\u2019s judicial review application must also be dismissed. The respondents shall pay the costs here and in the court below. It is so ordered.\u201d<\/p>\n

The other justices who ruled in favour of NSSF were Christopher Madrama and Stephen Musota.<\/p>\n

The judgment means that the Fund is now under no legal obligation to refund the employer\u2019s portion of the contributions directly to UTL and the 10 percent social security contribution belongs to the employees unless an appeal is filed before the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

The facts of the case are that UTL was incorporated under the Companies Act, and it was supposed to offer services, including cellular, pay phones, rural telecommunications, terminal apparatus provisions, and value added services.<\/p>\n

The company succeeded Uganda Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (UPTC).<\/p>\n

So upon incorporation into UTL by operations of statute, it had some contracts of the service transferred to it.<\/p>\n

UTL\u2019s primary case was that the relevant employees were not some of those envisaged to make contributions to the Fund under the relevant laws.<\/p>\n

They claimed NSSF had illegally collected the money.<\/p>\n

To that effect, in 2015, UTL wrote to the Fund demanding a refund of the 10 percent employer contributions claiming that the contributions had been made in error for their employees who initially worked under UPTC and were members of Uganda Communication Employees Contributory Pension Scheme.<\/p>\n

But NSSF had argued that the money was rightly collected from the relevant UTL employees as they were persons envisaged to make statutory contributions.<\/p>\n

Justice Lydia Mugambe ruled in UTL\u2019s favour, holding that NSSF had illegally collected the funds.<\/p>\n

Justice Mugambe, among others, ruled that UTL employees were exempted from making statutory contributions.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn order of injunction prohibiting the MD NSSF and NSSF from demanding, collecting arrears or retaining contributions in respect of ineligible and exempted employees of UTL,\u201d Justice Mugambe of the High Court, ruled then.<\/p>\n

However, being dissatisfied with the ruling, NSSF appealed before the Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n

NSSF welcomes court of appeal ruling<\/b><\/p>\n

On Friday, the NSSF welcomed the court\u2019s decision. \u201cWe welcome the Court of Appeal\u2019s judgment because it affirms our position that once contributions are remitted to the Fund, they belong to the employee for whom they have been paid. Regarding this particular case, we are confident that as an employer, UTL erred in seeking a refund of the employer contributions on the basis of an alleged exemption that was never subjected to interpretation by the courts,\u201d Mr Richard Byarugaba, the Fund\u2019s managing director, said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n

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