Government Legislations/Requirements

The Government reserves the right to conduct campaigns to register of all aliens in the country. This is often carried out to identify the number of internationals in the country and ‘regularising’ their stay in South Sudan. All Foreigner are often required to visit designated points and have their documents verified. The process if often done with no fee. Communications on this campaigns is often aired out through local media and circulars.

We advise members to often find circulars on our circulars section here http://docs.southsudanngoforum.org/regulation/circulars

The NGO Recruitment Guidelines is a Ministry if /Labour, Public Service and Human Resource Development (MoLPS&HRD) guidance document that provides practical steps and requirements fir recruitment of workers in the NGO Sector.

The guidelines provide NGOs and relevant government Institutions with detailed guidance on how to how to conduct recruitment process based on legal principles as well as NGO principles. The  guidelines are to help all those involved and concerned with the NGOs, National and State Ministries and relevant government institutions.

All visitors are required to have their fingerprints taken with the nearest Criminal Investigation Department (CID) offices within 1 week of arrival to the country.  Whilst the current practice is fingerprints collection when applying for work permits, members are asked to review their processes to fulfil this requirement.

Below are some of the requirements for fingerprints registration.  We advise members to consult with relevant authorities for changes/updates in the requirements

All Foreign employees are required by the labour law to have a work permit from the Ministry of Labour. See Labour Act 2017 Section 46:3 (http://docs.southsudanngoforum.org/legislation/labour-act-2017)

Below are some of the requirements for work permit applications.  We advise members to consult with relevant authorities for changes/updates in the requirements.

Passport and Immigration Act 2011 Chapter VI, section 25 on registration of aliens states that

The Labour Act 2017 refers to severance pay as terminal benefit for employees incase of:

1. Redundancy

   Labour Act 2017 section 77: 3 and 4 states that