ABSTRACT
Some attention has been given to modern legislation and its provisions to safeguard the interests of the workman in health, safety, and contract rights, while at work. It may now be valuable to examine the extent to which the various African countries have reproduced such European measures as Workmen's Compensation, Employers' Liability, Factory Acts, Unemployment Insurance, and similar modern innovations. Employers' Liability will be found embodied in a primitive form in most codes, usually combined with measures to provide Workmen's Compensation. A considerable difference will be found between accident compensation and that for disease; while the first exists in some form in all codes, the second is seldom provided for. Exceptions exist in the case of the South African arrangements for dealing with miners' phthisis, while other mining laws have rudimentary provisions of similar intention.
