Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2008, published 98th ILC session (2009)

Fee-Charging Employment Agencies Convention (Revised), 1949 (No. 96) - Ghana (Ratification: 1973)

Part II of the Convention. Progressive abolition of fee charging employment agencies conducted with a view to profit. In its 2007 observation, the Committee drew the Government’s attention to the fact that the provisions regarding private employment agencies contained in the Labour Act, 2003, and in the Labour Regulations, 2007, did not give effect to the obligations set out in the Parts of Convention No. 96 that have been accepted by Ghana. The Committee also invited the Government to report in 2008 on the measures taken, in consultation with the social partners, in relation to the ratification of the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181). In the reply received in September 2008, the Government stated that it is in the process of ratifying Convention No. 181, which would involve the immediate denunciation of Convention No. 96, in view of the recognition of the role played by private employment agencies in the operation of the labour market. The Committee welcomes this approach and hopes that the Government will be in a position to communicate the corresponding instrument of ratification to the Office in the very near future. The Committee recalls that the provisions of Convention No. 96 remain in force until the ratification of Convention No. 181 becomes effective.