The Chief Executive Officer of the GCB Bank, Ray Sowah at a press conference on Tuesday said not all the staff of the former banks will be employed adding that even those who will be retained will still undergo a skills assessment requirement.

[contextly_sidebar id=”4qlxm223CIbOhGMSL3wtmJsrBJ9RhoRe”]Meanwhile speaking on Eyewitness News on Wednesday, the Employment and Labour Relations Minister said although his outfit has not been contacted by any aggrieved worker yet, he will initiate processes to protect the workers who might be be affected by the takeover.

“I together with TUC is seeking to have an engagement with the stakeholders somewhere early next week so that we will bring all the parties to a roundtable and have a discussion as to how the affected workers are going to be dealt with or whether or not there are going to be retained by the GCB bank. If they are going off, what is the severance arrangement and what have you, we will do that arrangement somewhere next week.”

“This is just our initiative because formally, nobody has brought this issue to us. I would have expected us being involved especially even at that negotiation level so that we will get to know whether there is a fair play….. I have the impression to believe that those negotiations were done at the local level and perhaps the parties were okay and that is why they’ve not brought it to us. But whatever it is, whether they are okay or not, we will want to know the considerations that went in,” he added.

GCB bank was on Monday given the green light to take over the two banks which according to the Bank of Ghana had “severe impairment of their capital.”

BoG further revoked the licenses while the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) also suspended the listing status of UT Bank.

“The news of the takeover came to us as a surprise. But I want to believe that the central bank decided to keep this very low profile…because they wanted to keep this whole issue in a confidential manner to avoid the run on the bank. I am not too worried about the number that will be retained or not, what I’m interested in is that even those who are not going to be retained, what is going to be done for them so that they will become a burden on society,” the Minister added.

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The program dubbed the Ghana Labour Market Information System (GLMIS) the program will serve as a resourceful hub for job seekers as well as provide government with data in decision making.

[contextly_sidebar id=”KgGwBGR6X2WQNe214gp5r8rJjb2SpyvA”]“We were supposed to have launched it quite earlier. But because of change of government things have been flat a bit, hopefully by end of year the GLMIS should be functional… and this will be sent across all the regions in Ghana,” Deputy Employment Minister, Bright Wireko Brobbey said on the Citi Breakfast Show on Thursday.

The Deputy Minister made the remark on the back of several commitments made by to propel the establishment and revival of private sector led initiatives aimed at creating the much needed jobs for the teeming unemployed Ghanaians to kick start an industrial revolution in the country.

The Akufo-Addo government is hoping to raise over $2.5 billion for its flagship social intervention programmes such as the into the one-district one-factory , the National Entrepreneurship and Innovations Plan (NEIP), one-million one-constituency, among others.

According to Mr. Brobbey, the program will factor into its system persons who benefit from such government initiatives.

He also explained that the labour marketing system will also rely on the labour agencies in the various regions for data.

“What is going to happen is that information on people looking for jobs, availability of jobs from the various sector ministries will all be centralized and keep in so as and when people go in to access and have placements this is able to track. And then we are also able to generate and synchronize and be able to tell the general public how many jobs we are providing within a period of time,” he added.

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The Minister has given the Labour Department a week to conclude the investigations.

The Minister visited the Abelemkpe branch of Marwako Fast Foods in Accra, today [Tuesday], after the alleged assault on one Evelyn Boakye.

The Employment Minister was at the restaurant together with the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisa Djaba.

Her Lebanese supervisor is alleged to have forced her face into blended pepper.

Following public outrage and subsequent arrest of the suspect, Mr. Baffour Awuah said the Labour Department’s investigation would run alongside the Police investigation.

“We will respect the laws of this country and we will allow the police to do the criminal aspect of the case, but the labour issues in there will be investigated by the labour department of our sector. It is not just about the criminality, but also labour issues; worker employee associations.”

The Lebanese supervisor at the centre of the assault, Jihad Chaaban, has formally been charged with assault by the Police.

He was processed for court earlier on Tuesday, to enable the police present the facts of the case, but the process was deferred because the Abeka Magistrate Court did not sit. He is currently on bail.

Mr. Baffour Awuah added that, the outcome of the investigation will determine the ministry’s course of action

“We will at this stage not conclude as to whether the case is over or not. For us, it has just even begun because we are just going to do the investigation,” the Minster said.

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