Tema, May 6, - Some fishing
companies in Ghana pay as low as 80 Ghana Cedis a month to employees on their
vessels.
Poor labour practices including
low wages, poor or non-existent compensation for injuries and death, and the haphazard
recruitment process in Ghana’s fishing industry which had remained a rumour for
some time was brought to the fore during a meeting between the security
agencies and owners, managers of fishing companies in Tema.
“How do you pay someone 6 Ghana
Cedis a day at sea? And you do not have his telephone number. You do not have
his address and even the contract by which he is working was not signed by
him”, a marine police officer who wanted to be anonymous, told the meeting.
Confirming the facts to the Ghana
News Agency, Flight Lieutenant M Tachie, President, National Fisheries
Association of Ghana (NAFAC), said “these are the bare facts but we are working
on it.”
GNA
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