Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1998, published 87th ILC session (1999)

Social Policy (Basic Aims and Standards) Convention, 1962 (No. 117) - Ghana (Ratification: 1964)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the following matters raised in its previous direct request:

Remuneration of workers

Article 11 of the Convention. The Committee recalls that, although sections 53, 54 and 55 of Labour Decree (No. 157) contain various provisions for the protection of wages, there are no specific provisions to make it compulsory to issue to workers statements of wage payments, to pay wages directly to the worker, to prohibit the payment of wages in stores or to make it compulsory to pay wages at regular intervals, as required by paragraphs 1, 3, 5 and 6 of Article 11 of the Convention.

The Committee notes the Government's indication that these provisions of the Convention are applied in practice and that it intends to take the necessary measures to bring the Labour Decree (No. 157) and the Labour Regulations (Legislative Instrument 632) into conformity with the Convention on these points. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the progress made in this regard.

Article 12. The Committee notes the indication in the Government's report that the tripartite National Advisory Committee on Labour has been addressing other important matters but would nevertheless examine the Committee of Experts' concerns including its comments on this Article of the Convention. The Committee hopes that the Government will soon be able to bring the national legislation into conformity with this Article of the Convention which requires that measures be taken to regulate advances on wages.