Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2024, published 113rd ILC session (2025)

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

Part II of the Convention. Progressive abolition of fee-charging employment agencies. Ratification of Convention No. 181. The Committee refers to its previous comments and recalls that the provisions regarding private employment agencies contained in the 2003 Labour Act and the 2007 Labour Regulations are not such as to give effect to the obligations contained in Part II of the Convention. The Government indicates that the Labour Act is currently at its review stage to incorporate the provisions of Convention No. 181 to enable the Government to proceed with its ratification and that it would continue to engage the social partners to this effect. The Committee recalls that the Government has been considering the ratification of Convention No. 181 and that the ILO Governing Body, at its 337th Session in October–November 2019, classified Convention No. 96 as an outdated instrument. The Governing Body consequently included the abrogation or withdrawal of Convention No. 96 on the agenda of the 119th Session of the International Labour Conference, to be held in 2030. It also requested the Office to take measures to encourage the ratification of Convention No. 181, the ratification of which results in the immediate denunciation of Convention No. 96. The Committee once again requests the Government to provide information on the measures taken, in consultation with the social partners, to complete the ratification process of the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181), which would immediately lead to the denunciation of Convention No. 96. The Committee recalls that the Government may avail itself of the technical assistance of the Office in this regard.