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In 1999, the Ghana Federation of Labour (GFL) was established as an umbrella organization for several independent trade unions. In 2003 a tripartite National Labour Commission was created to help resolve disputes. It also assumed responsibility for issuing bargaining certificates for unions seeking to establish collective bargaining agreements.
The National Tripartite Committee is a regulatory body in Ghana, composed of five representatives each for government, employers, and organized labor. It is chaired by the Minister of Manpower, Youth, and Employment. The committee is responsible for setting the national minimum wage. It also consults participants in the labor market in order to ...
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 ...
In 1998, most of the laws on unfair labour practices were removed from the Labour Relations Act and placed into the newly formed Employment Equity Act (EEA). The EEA also deals with issues such as fairness regarding a worker's human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status or disability, as well as the issue of affirmative action.
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The Act was repealed by the I.K. Acheampong government in the same year. The union's executives were replaced in a "coup d'etat" in 1983 by an Interim Management Committee at the instance of the Association of Local Unions (ALU) of the Greater Accra Region . [ 2 ]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Law of Ghana" ... Trademarks Act, 2004; Tuffour v. Attorney-General
It affiliated to the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC). [3] The largest union in the country, in the 1980s under L. G. K. Ocloo it became known for its opposition to the Provisional National Defence Council, and Ocloo was ultimately forced into exile. [4] In 1983, some union members split away, to form the Textile, Garment and Leather Employees ...