The Ghana Employers Association is engaging stakeholders to help address the current unemployment rate in the country.
This follows the Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research (ISSER) assertion that Ghana is sitting on a time bomb due to the growing unemployment rate in the country.
[contextly_sidebar id=”NHx7YEuoLm54uLUko4TIXhycYZQVxFKf”]The ISSER indicated that about 200,000 unemployed graduates are in the country.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Association, Alex Frimpong said “new businesses are not able to engage any worker because they are unable to cope with the difficulties in the economy and most importantly the need ..to ensure that they become competitive.”
Another reason according to him, is because “macro economic environment becomes more and more challenging for businesses then the existing businesses are not able to expand and retool.”
Mr. Frimpong stated that the stakeholder engagements will therefore devise directives on employing graduates after school.
“We asked the Ministry of Trades and Industry as well as the Attorney General’s department to look out how we can come up with very stringent rules and regulations to make them very attractive”
Graduates frustrated
Meanwhile some unemployed graduates who spoke to Citi News said they have been struggling to get by.
One said: “I have been searching but there is no job. If you go they will tell you there is a vacancy but we cant pay you so it is better you come and sit down. They shouldn’t look up to government, they should sit up.”
“I completed school four years now but I have not been working so the government should see to it that the youth get a job to do.It is very difficult. I have been sending my application and the unemployment rate is very high.I will be glad if government does something about the situation,” another complained.
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By: Marian Efe Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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