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Employment Minister assures security for communication sector workers
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Employment Minister assures security for communication sector workers

Mr Ignatius Baffour Awuah, Minister for Employment and Labor Relations has said Government would ensure job security for workers of the communication sector. He said the communication sector workers continued to endure unstable jobs and poor working environments despite their significant roles in development and especially in the ongoing fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Mr Awuah said these in a speech read on his behalf at the opening of the Seventh Quadrennial National Delegates Conference of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Ho. The Minister said the sector contributed considerably “towards the economy although constituting a wee fraction of the nation’s workforce, and appealed to management of institutions within the sector t...
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Over 770,000 workers experience reduction in wages – Survey
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Over 770,000 workers experience reduction in wages – Survey

A Business Tracker Survey conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) indicates that more than 770,000 workers (25.7 percent of the total workforce) have their wages reduced and about 42,000 employees laid off during the country’s COVID-19 partial lockdown. The survey conducted by GSS in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank stated that the pandemic also led to a reduction in working hours for close to 700,000 workers. The survey report revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic had caused considerable impacts on Ghanaian businesses, forcing many firms to cut costs by reducing staff hours, cutting wages, and in some cases laying off workers. “The data also show that during the lockdown, about 244,000 firms started adjusting their business mo...
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Boko Haram executes five humanitarian workers
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Boko Haram executes five humanitarian workers

BOKO HARAM terrorists on Wednesday released a video showing the execution of five humanitarian workers that they earlier abducted. The Nation gathered that the insurgents had made contact, demanding about $500,000, which was not paid. It was indicated in the video released on Wednesday that insurgents ran out of patience and executed the aid workers. In the video, the insurgents said the humanitarian workers were “working for unbelievers who don’t care about you.” Their message read: “We are sending this as a very strong message to you unbelievers and infidels. And to those of you that are being used by these infidels to repent. “You are working for them but they do not have any concern about you. “You worked for them to achieve their goals but they are very far from you...
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BOST closed down….46 workers test positive for COVID 19
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BOST closed down….46 workers test positive for COVID 19

About 46 workers of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transport (BOST) have tested positive for coronavirus (COVID 19) This comes after the oil and storage company closed down its head office at Dzorwulu in Accra and asked all staff to work from home temporarily. A statement signed by the Corporate Communications Department of BOST said "The Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited would like to announce for the information of the general public that it has closed down its head office at Dzorwulu in the Ayawaso West Municipality from Monday, 6th July to Monday 13 July 2020. "This has become necessary due to mass testing of staff carried out by the company at the head office in the wake of staff of the IT department testing positive for the virus. After the mass testing, the num...
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SSNIT Hospital orders workers to self quarantine, as the hospital records 2 COVID19 cases
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SSNIT Hospital orders workers to self quarantine, as the hospital records 2 COVID19 cases

SSNIT hospital in Osu has recorded two COVID19 cases. Management of the facilities has, as a result, ordered about 60 workers including doctors and nurses, to go quarantine. The two COVID19 patients were taken to the hospital and admitted for other conditions. However, upon suspicion, their samples were taken for COVID19 testing after they had been in the facility for almost a week. Their tests came out to be positive. One of the two cases was in a private ward while the other was in a general ward with patients being treated for other sicknesses. According to our sources, the wards have been closed down. Workers who came into contact with the COVID19 patients have been quarantined. Management of the hospital has planned to shut down the facility tomorrow for fumiga...
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