{"id":1217972,"date":"2022-10-07T08:02:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T08:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/07\/icu-ghana-demands-immediate-cessation-of-incessant-exploitation-of-labour\/"},"modified":"2022-10-07T08:02:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T08:02:06","slug":"icu-ghana-demands-immediate-cessation-of-incessant-exploitation-of-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/07\/icu-ghana-demands-immediate-cessation-of-incessant-exploitation-of-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"ICU-Ghana demands immediate cessation of incessant exploitation of labour"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As the world marks Day for Decent Work, the ICU-Ghana is calling for the immediate cessation of entrenching casual and contract work beyond the seasonal job period of six months allowed by the Labour Laws of Ghana.<\/p>\n

It is also kicking against the conversion of \u201cDecent Work\u201d into \u201cPrecarious Work\u201d by some selfish and inconsiderate employers thus abusing the fundamental human rights of workers, to illegally maximise profits.<\/p>\n

It is therefore calling on all labour organisations in Ghana, the Ghana Employers Association, labour authorities and the Government to join hands with it to fight what it describes as the incessant exploitation of labour.<\/p>\n

The ICU-Ghana said, \u201cWe would not hesitate to mobilise and collaborate with organized labour in the country to resist any attempt by any employer\/organisation to frustrate efforts towards the promotion of the decent work agenda if the incessant exploitation of labour does not stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is calling on the relevant authorities (i.e. Government through Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations) to clamp down on these anti-nation builders parading as employers, and bring fairness and equality to the employment structure in Ghana.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ICU-Ghana is ready to collaborate with the authorities to name, shame and sanction those exploitative employers so as to sanitize the employment system for the good of all stakeholders.\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

World Day for Decent Work<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 7th of October, is marked every year by the Labour Movement all over the world, as \u201cWorld Day For Decent Work\u201d, to garner support for the implementation and sustainability of \u201cDecent Work\u201d, \u00a0that is, work that gives equal pay for equal work; work that gives opportunity for personal development, work that ensures the future financial security (like social insurance) of workers, work that ensures job security etc of workers.<\/p>\n

In Ghana today, so many jobs have been made \u201cprecarious\u201d through casualisation and contractualisation work regime, that has been foisted on a lot of workers due to the hydraheaded unemployment problems in the country, thus denying such unfortunate workers future financial security among other deprivations.<\/p>\n

These classes of workers are denied their fundamental human rights to freedom of association and forming or joining a trade union for the promotion and protection of their social and economic interests as espoused by the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana and the Labour Laws of Ghana.<\/p>\n

The casual, contract and temporary work regime, though allowed by the Labour Laws of Ghana for a limited period not exceeding six (6) months and for seasonal jobs only, has been entrenched and mainstreamed so much so that even some permanent \u00a0employees are outsourced by some unprincipled employers to employment \u00a0agencies and redeploy them back into the same organization as casuals and\/or contract workers with reduced wages\/salaries and denial of social insurance (like SSNIT) thus jeopardizing their future financial security. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis constitutes an Unfair Labour Practice and it must not be allowed to fester any longer.\u201d said the ICU-Ghana.<\/p>\n

Covid-19 Impact<\/strong><\/p>\n

The outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic that lasted for almost two years before subsiding, took a heavy toll on a lot of workers as they lost their jobs through staff attrition by some organizations and, in some cases, total closure of businesses.<\/p>\n

All this adversely affected the social insurance and future financial security of the workers and jeopardised their socio-economic interest and protection.<\/p>\n

Now that businesses are recovering and there is an opportunity for those who lost their jobs during the Covid-19 pandemic to regain their jobs, \u201cif the precarious work regime is not stopped,\u201d according to the ICU-Ghana, \u201cit would further deteriorate the prospects of those unfortunate workers ever having any future financial security as this repressive regime of work denies them any social insurance and protection for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the world marks Day for Decent Work, the ICU-Ghana is calling for the immediate cessation of entrenching casual and contract work beyond the seasonal job period of six months allowed by the Labour Laws of Ghana. It is also kicking against the conversion of \u201cDecent Work\u201d into \u201cPrecarious Work\u201d by some selfish and inconsiderate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[4555,1199,18362,27021,27022,1270],"class_list":["post-1217972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-cessation","tag-demands","tag-exploitation","tag-icughana","tag-incessant","tag-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}