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Manage current economic hardship as gov’t comes to support …Henry Quartey urges workers
Mr Henry Quartey (middle) with the award winners
The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr Henry Quartey, at this year’s May Day called workers, stakeholders to manage the current economic situation as the government was poised to make life better for the people of this nation.
“Even though Workers are among the lowest paid wage earners in the continent, they should avoid speculations that the government wants to touch workers’ pension” he added.
In a speech read by Freda Frimpong, the Regional Secretary of Trade Union Congress, on behalf the General Secretary of the Labour Union Dr Anthony Yaw Buah urged government to review the Single Spine Pay Policy because workers were receiving lowest salaries in the public sector even though they were providing all the essential services to the people of Ghana.
The TUC stressed the urgency in completing the review of national laws to protect jobs and income.
She expressed concern that many workers were losing their jobs because “employers are abusing their right to hire and fire workers, others are also taking advantage of weakness in the labour law and replacing permanent employment contracts with fixed- term contracts”.
“We will no longer accept a situation where Article 71 office holders are awarded huge pay increases with fat allowances while some workers on the Single Spine Salary Structure continue to receive less than Gh 600 per month” she lamented.
The Greater Accra Regional Secretary of Trade Union Congress appealed to government to protect their pension funds from the Domestic exchange programme and also consider establishing one strong institution to manage the second-tier schemes.
As part of the celebration 19 workers from the various labour unions in Accra and Tema were honoured with citations for their distinguish services.
The workers, who sat in the various stands designated for them, could not hold back their joy and excitement as they sang popular “Jama” tunes.
Some inscriptions on the placards were ; “we need decent jobs”, “unemployed youth is a security threat”, “PBC needs urgent help”, “we need money”.
The rest are support “agricultural challenge”, “Do not mess with the union”, “galamsey is a threat to GWCL”.
Meanwhile the National May Day Parade was held in the Upper East Region and was chaired by the president of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo -Addo.
By Linda Abrefi Wadie
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EC’s disqualification of Joana Cudjoe mischievous and disingenuous – NDC
The Head of Legal Affairs of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Edudzie Tamekloe, has described the Electoral Commission’s (EC) decision to disqualify the party’s parliamentary candidate for the Amenfi Central as mischievous and disingenuous.
Edudzie Tamekloe told Citi Breakfast Show host, Bernard Avle that the EC’s basis for the “disqualification is mind-boggling” because it was a party to an interlocutory injunction against the candidate, Joana Gyan Cudjoe’s election in the May 12 primary.
“The basis of the disqualification is the purported interlocutory injunction from the High Court in Sekondi which is extremely mischievous because clearly, the EC at all material times, was a party to the suit in the Sekondi Court,” he said.
According to him,“Each time we appeared before the judge in Sekondi, there was a representative for the EC and so the proceedings were known to the EC. When we annulled that election and decided to rerun it, they came to supervise the election and so for Samuel Tettey to refer to the injunction [in the disqualification] is completely disingenuous.”
An October 10 letter signed by the Deputy Chairman of the EC in charge of Operations, Samuel Tettey, informed Gyan Cudjoe of her disqualification, stating that the Commission is bound by the court order, which has neither been stayed nor vacated.
The NDC’s legal head also accused the EC of taking sides in the matter and disqualifying Joana from its volution:.
“When the EC opened filing, the party presented Joana as its nominee and thereafter, there was an indication that there was going to be the printing of the notice of poll, which was delayed and so we made enquiries and wrote a letter to the plaintiff and we thought this matter had ended, but on October 10, Samuel Tettey wrote a letter disqualifying Joana,” he added.
He concluded, “The EC cannot act like an octopus and move everywhere looking to disqualify a candidate whose election it supervised.”
source: Citinewsroom.com
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Police arrest a man for assaulting his 20-year-old daughter
The Ghana Police Service has arrested suspect Nana Amo Abraham, for causing harm to his 20-year-old daughter at Twifo Praso in the Central Region.
The suspect, according to Police investigation, physically assaulted his daughter, following a disagreement, and inflicted bodily harm on her.
He is currently in custody assisting the investigation and will be put before court.
Meanwhile, the Police have made arrangements for the victim to be brought to the Police Hospital in Accra for further medical care.
