DOMESTIC WORKERS BILL ET AL AT LAST!

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The Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations is working together with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection to ratify the Domestic Workers’ Bill for the consideration and passage of Parliament. 

If it is eventually enacted into an Act, the Domestic Workers’ law will help to address the abuse of the rights and privileges of domestic workers who appear to have been neglected in public policies for far too long. 

President John Mahama made this known in Kumasi when he addressed the 10th Quadrennial Delegates Congress. 

The Congress is on the theme: “Building Workers’ Power for Decent Work and National Development”. 

President Mahama disclosed also that Cabinet has approved the ILO Maternity Protection Convention and is now before Parliament for consideration and passage into law. 

The bill seeks to enhance the welfare of pregnant women and nursing mothers as well as their babies at the workplace without losing the associated rights at work while safeguarding their health. 

Additionally, Cabinet bill will soon be submitted to Parliament for considering a bill on the rights of the disabled to work. 

Already, President Mahama announced that Parliament has approved an increment in the share of person with disability of the District Assemblies Common Fund. 

The fund is to be disbursed through the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies. 

He announced also that   "a Bill on Occupational Health and Safety is also before Parliament for consideration" and expressed the hope that the Bill would be passed before the current Parliament ends its tenure in January of 2017. 

On job creation, President Mahama gave the assurance that on completion of ongoing projects in the health, education as well as the constructions sub-sectors, many job opportunities will be available for particularly the teeming youth to improve on their economic lives.

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