EMPLOYERS AROUND the world are creating difficult situations to destroy unions, whilst at the same time cutting labor costs and avoiding being held responsible for their own employees.
This occurs when permanent, regular jobs are replaced by sub-contracted labour and temporary, short-term jobs by some foreign nationals, especially, the Chinese and Indian companies in Ghana. This is why workers around the world are uniting to bring back courtesy in job creation.
The Ashanti regional officer of Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), Simone Baaba Allotey has, thus, entreated that ICU-Ghana wants to see Conventions 87 and 98 applied to all workers.
According to him, Ghana is pregnant with work that is characterized by uncertain duration, lack of access to benefits such as sick leave, paid holidays, stumpy pay and an ambiguity as to the legal nature of the employment relationship.
Mr Allotey noted that most companies in the region pay their workers below the national minimum wage even after engaging them beyond the daily working perimeter of eight hours
He made the call at a press conference held in Kumasi at St. Luis Training Collage during the week towards the maiden world workers day.
The essence of the day was to bring to the attention of the government, employers, civil society organizations, advocates of justice and equity, injustices such as casualization being meted out to workers.
The chairman for the union, Kojo Intsiful on his part explained that precarious work includes contracting of labour, hiring of labour through agencies or brokers, outsourcing of labour, contracting of labour, casualization and all forms of employment that are not permanent.
He said people's passion and desperation to work have forced them to endure such unfair treatments from employers. He, however, advised prospective job seekers to insist on their right and not be exploited by some unscrupulous business owners.
Information reaching this paper from the Ashanti region indicated that recent years have seen the sudden increase of radio stations with several currently operating in other regions.
Employees of most of these radio stations have revealed that even though they work more than 8 hours a day, their employers pay them below the national minimum wage and most also doesn�t contribute to the Social Security and National Insurance Trust.
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