Section 2, The Employment Act, 2023

(1) This Act shall apply to all employers and workers in Sierra Leone and pending employment related claims except where the contrary is expressly stated. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Minister may, by statutory instrument, after consultation with the Joint Consultative Committee, exempt a person, class of persons, trade, industry or undertaking whose terms and conditions of employment are governed by special arrangements, from the operation of all or any of the provisions of this Act. (3) The Minister may, by statutory instrument, extend the application of this Act to any category of persons excluded from the application of this Act under section 3.