Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2010, published 100th ILC session (2011)

Labour Administration Convention, 1978 (No. 150) - Ghana (Ratification: 1986)

Reporting obligations relating to the application of the Convention. The Committee notes that the Government’s report for the period 2005–09 is virtually identical with the Government’s last report, except the additional information on training of labour administration staff. The Committee further notes the scarce information as to the renaming of the former Ministry of Manpower Development and Employment to the Ministry of Employment and Social welfare with the same structure and functions. In addition, the committee notes the adoption of Legislative Instrument LI 1833 of 31 July 2007, Part II, which gives effect to Section IV of the Labour Act, 2003 and provides for, among other things, the possibility to link jobseekers and employers through private employment agencies, whose conditions of establishment are regulated by section 3 of the new instrument. The Committee urges the Government to provide the ILO with detailed and up-to-date information on the application in law and in practice of each Article of the Convention, according to the requests in the report form of the Convention, to enable the Committee to fully appreciate the effect given of the requirements contained therein.

In its 2009 comments under the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81), and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182), the Committee noted the recent developments in the Labour Department and the Department of Factories and Inspectorate of the abovementioned Ministry, namely the development of human resources, an ongoing needs assessment and organizational rearrangement and the enhanced commitment of the Government to enable the departmental staff to undertake some of the training courses run by the ILO–ARLAC (African Regional Labour Administration Centre). The Committee asks the Government to provide further details on the training activities carried out during the period covered by its next report and, if applicable, to keep the ILO informed of any difficulties encountered.

The Committee asks the Government to provide, if applicable, and as requested under Part III of the report form, information on judiciary decisions involving questions of principle relating to the application of the Convention and supply the text of these decisions.

In connection to Part IV of the report form, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would also provide any reports, extracts of reports or other periodic information concerning the work of the principal labour administration services, for instance, the Ministry of Employment and Social welfare, the Public Employment Centres, the Tripartite National Labour Commission, the National Employment Council, the National Labour Market Authority, the Management Development and Productivity Institute or the National Advisory Committee on Labour, or any other national or local bodies involved in the formulation and implementation of labour policies or programmes.