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Established by the government of Ghana under the FWSC ACT, 2007 (Act 737), the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission has the mandate of implementing the new Government Pay Policy (i.e. Single Spine Pay Policy) as regard salaries, wages, grading and classification of public service workers. [1] [2]
The Ministry is mandated to formulate, plan, coordinate, monitor and evaluate policies, programmes/projects and the performance of the Employment & Labour Relations Sector towards accelerated employment generation for national development; to promote harmonious industrial (labour) relations and ensure workplace safety; as well as to create an enabling policy environment and opportunities for ...
The Ghana Trades Union Congress is a national centre that unites various workers' organizations in Ghana. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The organization was established in 1945. [ 2 ]
The same year, several workers calling themselves the Association of Labour Unions (ALU) backed by the government attacked the TUC headquarters and set up Interim Management Committees as heads of both the TUC and the trade unions within it to democratize them. From there on, relations between the government and the TUC were poor. [2]
1. Law No. 21 of 2000 on Trade Unions, which allowed free unionization; and 2. Law No. 13 of 2003 on Manpower, which legislated other minimum labour rights; and 3. Law No. 2 of 2004 on Industrial Relations Disputes Settlement, established a new industrial relations dispute resolution system.
However, wage labour takes many other forms, and explicit as opposed to implicit (i.e. conditioned by local labour and tax law) contracts are not uncommon. Economic history shows a great variety of ways, in which labour is traded and exchanged. The differences show up in the form of:
The Ghana Federation of Labour (GFL) is a national trade union centre in Ghana. The origins of the GFL can be traced to the departure of a group of workers from the TUC-affiliated Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union who then founded the Textile, Garment and Leather Employees Union (TGLEU) in 1993. [ 2 ]
The statutes relating to hours of labour may be considered under five groups, namely: (1) general laws which merely fix what shall be regarded as a day's labour in the absence of a contract; (2) laws defining what shall constitute a day's work on public roads; (3) laws limiting the hours of labour per day on public works; (4) laws limiting the ...