{"id":779380,"date":"2020-01-09T15:40:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T15:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2020\/01\/09\/tdcl-appeals-to-government-to-resource-department-of-factories-inspectorate\/"},"modified":"2020-01-09T15:40:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T15:40:14","slug":"tdcl-appeals-to-government-to-resource-department-of-factories-inspectorate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/09\/tdcl-appeals-to-government-to-resource-department-of-factories-inspectorate\/","title":{"rendered":"TDCL appeals to government to resource Department of Factories Inspectorate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">By<br \/>\nLaudia Sawer<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Tema, Jan. 9, GNA &#8211;<br \/>\nThe Tema District Council of Labour (TDCL) has appealed to the government to<br \/>\nproperly resource the Department of Factories Inspectorate in the industrial<br \/>\ncity to enable it discharge its legal mandate efficiently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The Inspectorate has<br \/>\na mission to promote measures that would safeguard the health and safety of<br \/>\npersons employed in premises, which fall within the purview of the Factories,<br \/>\nOffices and Shops Act, 1970 (Act 328).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The TDCL in an<br \/>\ninterview with the Ghana News Agency indicated that the office of the Inspectorate<br \/>\nin Tema was seriously under resourced making it difficult for its officers to<br \/>\nmonitor and sanction activities in the numerous industries, offices and shops<br \/>\nin the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Mr Emmanuel<br \/>\nAddo-Kumi, Secretary of the TDCL, indicated that it was long overdue for the<br \/>\nneeded logistics to be give\u00a0 to the<br \/>\nInspectorate by the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations to ensure the<br \/>\nsafety and health of workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Mr Addo-Kumi said<br \/>\nsome of the members of the TDCL worked in areas where safety was not properly<br \/>\nobserved \u201cwhich has led\u00a0 to various<br \/>\ndegrees of injury, diseases and the\u00a0 fear<br \/>\nof being sacked if\u00a0 they\u00a0 report\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">He added that<br \/>\nunfortunately some employers also threatened employees when they reported such<br \/>\nsafety issues at their premises.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">According to him,<br \/>\nother challenges faced by the workers in the industrial city included<br \/>\ncasualization which he stated had become the order of the day through which<br \/>\nlabour was exploited in terms of wages, salaries and pension contributions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The TDCL also<br \/>\nbemoaned the interference of some management in union affairs indicating that<br \/>\n\u201csome managements are union phobia therefore they will do everything possible<br \/>\nin their capacity to ensure that no trade union is established in their yards,<br \/>\nanyone who does that is shown the exist\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Touching on other<br \/>\nissues facing locally owned companies, the TDCL said they found it strange to<br \/>\nsee foreign investors enjoying tax exemptions whereas indigenous enterprises<br \/>\nstruggled to raise funds to revamp or put up additional or new structures to increase<br \/>\nproduction adding that the Volta Aluminum Company (VALCO) and the Tema Oil<br \/>\nRefinery (TOR) were examples.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">They therefore<br \/>\ncalled on government to as much as possible provide financial support to\u00a0 indigenous companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">GNA<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Laudia Sawer Tema, Jan. 9, GNA &#8211; The Tema District Council of Labour (TDCL) has appealed to the government to properly resource the Department of Factories Inspectorate in the industrial city to enable it discharge its legal mandate efficiently. 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