National Labor Commission Receives 55 Cases Monthly | General News

The National Labor Commission (NLC) receives about 55 instances each month and at the least one case every working day.

Thus, on common, the NLC acquired 666 complaints yearly, and a complete of 6,657 complaints inside a interval of 10 years.

Among the key complaints made have been unfair termination of employment, compensations, wage areas and excellent transport allowance.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Employers' Association (GEA), Alex Frimpong, who introduced this in Accra, mentioned to enhance the fee's effort to take care of the problems, it was needed to enhance the capability of Listed Arbitrators and Mediators .

He mentioned proactive and environment friendly channels for resolving labor disputes have been essential to maintain a harmonious industrial local weather and labor market stability.

Event

Mr Frimpong was talking throughout a two-day workshop to coach arbitrators and mediators to strengthen the dispute decision worth chain for immediate facilitation of justice.

The workshop was additionally geared toward supporting the NLC to reinforce its mediation and arbitration position for efficient and environment friendly labor dispute settlement within the nation.

It was organized by the GEA in collaboration with the NLC, and supported by the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO).

Participants have been taken by way of subjects reminiscent of industrial relations in Norway; labor dispute decision, the position of the NLC in industrial dispute decision; provisions of the code of guidelines for mediators and arbitrators on the fee, and challenges and prospects of other dispute decision within the nation.

“We believe that the outcome of this training will contribute immensely to the promotion of stability and harmony within the industrial relations environment,” Mr Frimpong added.

Advice

The Chairman of the National Labor Commission, Justice Kwabena Asuman-Adu, additionally suggested the members to take the coaching program severely.

He additionally urged them to be impartial in shelling out their duties, including that “to perform your duties as mediators and arbitrators effectively, you need to be neutral”.

“This is because a neutral trained mediator works to help disputants come to consensus on their own,” the chairman added.

For his half, the Executive Secretary of the NLC, Ofosu Asamoah, mentioned the coaching train was essential, including that there was the necessity to make use of fashionable technique of dispute decision.