Tema, April 16, - The Tema
District Council of Labour (TDCL) has bemoaned the new trend of industries
making use of casual workers instead of employing permanent staff.
Mr Emmanuel Addo-Kumi, Secretary
for the TDCL, speaking to the Ghana News Agency on Monday, said many companies
especially the industries were refusing to make casual workers permanent staff.
Mr Addo-Kumi stated that some
workers had been working as casuals for over 10 years, a situation he described
as worrying.
He explained that in order not to
be liable to the labour laws that enjoined employers to permanently employ a
casual worker after six months of engagement, such industries terminate the
contracts of casual workers before the six months elapsed and reinstate them
later.
He therefore appealed to the
Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations, and other stakeholders to look
into the practice as failure to do so could lead to many more institutions
adopting the practice.
He also asked government to take
workers’ welfare issues seriously and formulate policies that would ensure that
workers received good remunerations and other packages to motivate them to give
off their best to the building of the nation.
The TDCL Secretary said the
laying off of workers due to closing down of several companies was worrying as
it would increase unemployment in the country and that government must look
into the factors leading to the folding up of these establishments.
Touching on programme line-up for
the celebration of this year’s May Day, he announced that a day’s symposium
under the theme: “Sustainable Development Goals and Decent Work, The Role of
the Social Partner”, would be held for local union executives and other
officials.
The symposium, he noted, would be
addressed by Professor Baah Boateng, an Economist and Lecturer, University of
Ghana, and Mr Ignatius Baffour Awuah, the Minister of Employment and Labour
Relations.
Workers in Tema were also
expected to embark on a massive clean-up exercise in the Tema Community One
central business area on February 28, 2018.
GNA
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