Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1991, published 78th ILC session (1991)

Labour Clauses (Public Contracts) Convention, 1949 (No. 94) - Ghana (Ratification: 1961)

The Committee notes that the Government's report contains no reply to previous comments. It must therefore repeat its previous observation which read as follows:

The Committee notes from the Government's report that the Committee's previous comments had been noted and will be discussed by the National Advisory Committee on Labour in due course. It recalls that measures to apply the Convention have been requested since the Convention's ratification, and that the previous report referred to the Government's intention to take into account the Committee's comments in codifying the national legislation in a two-year programme starting from January 1983. In these circumstances, the Committee can only raise the question once again, trusting that measures will be taken in the very near future to bring the legislation into conformity with the Convention with regard to the following points: Article 2 of the Convention. The Committee hopes that the Government will take measures to include labour clauses in public contracts ensuring to the workers concerned wages, hours of work and other conditions of labour which are not less favourable than those established for work of the same character in the trade, industry or area concerned. The Committee trusts that the employers' and workers' organisations concerned will be consulted on terms of clauses. Article 5. The Committee hopes that effect will also be given to the provisions of this Article (application of adequate sanctions and measures to enable the workers concerned to obtain the wages to which they are entitled).

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The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary action in the very near future.