Tag: Employment
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Unemployment: Planned redundancies twice the rate of last recession
Employers in Britain are planning more than twice as many redundancies than they did at the height of the last recession, new figures show. About 180,000 job cuts were planned from January to March 2009, while 380,000 were planned from May to July this year. Completed redundancies could reach 735,000 this autumn, researchers say. The…
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Leave is lost when you don’t take it; nothing like accumulated Leave exists – Austin Gamey
A Labour Consultant and a former Deputy Minister for Employment and Social Welfare under the erstwhile NDC government , Austin Gamey, has stated that the concept of accumulated leave, which is mostly prevalent in Ghana’s public sector, is not backed by the labour law. According to him, per Section 31 of the Labour Act, unused…
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Industry-Academia collaboration critical to economic growth and employment creation
The President and Executive Dean of the Noble International Business School (NiBS), Prof. Kwaku Atuahene-Gima has charged businesses in the country to take more risks in engaging in other ventures that are not core to their operations, but have the potential to make them more profitable while creating more employment. He made the comments at…
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Pay workers appropriately to prevent corruption – TUC Chairman
Ahead of the implementation of the 2020 National Daily Minimum Wage (NDMW), the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the main umbrella organization for trade unions activities in Ghana has warned there could be a rise in corruption if workers are not paid enough. The 2020 National Daily Minimum Wage (NDMW) has gone up 11 percentage points…
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Merge for the benefit of Ghanaian workers, Trade Unions told
Some stakeholders on labour and employment issues are warning that the plight of Ghanaian workers would worsen if the different worker’s unions in the country do not merge to strengthen their ability to negotiate. Currently, the Trades Union Congress which is the main umbrella organization for trade union activities in Ghana has about 21 affiliate…
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Employment Minister calls for review of fixed-term contracts for workers
The Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, has implored employers to review the contract and working conditions of fixed-term contract workers to improve upon their welfare and ensure job security. He urged the National Tripartite Committee to dialogue with employers on fixed-term contracts of workers to ensure sustainable jobs and compliance with the…
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Ghana Employers Association appeals to gov’t to reduce electricity tariffs
The Ghana Employers Association (GEA) has made an appeal to the government to reduce the non-domestic electricity tariffs to help boost industrial growth in the country. According to its President, Dan Acheampong the Association was pleased to note that the reduction in electricity tariffs in March 2018, particularly for industry, was a welcome development. He…
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Unemployment rate in Ghana drops — Employment Minister
Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, has said the rate of unemployment in the country has reduced from 11.9 per cent in 2015 to 7.1 per cent in 2019. The decline, he said, was partly as a result of government’s flagship programmes and policies interventions conceptualised in the Coordinated Programme for Economic…
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Don’t lift ban on public sector recruitment despite IMF exit – Ebo Turkson
An Economist, Dr. Ebo Turkson has strongly advised against the lifting of the ban on public sector employment following the country’s exit from the International Monetary Fund program. As part of the program, public sector recruitments were frozen in an effort to manage the public sector wage bill. Following the country’s exit from the programme,…