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Ghana Employment Rights & Duties

The document outlines the rights and duties of employers and employees under an employment contract in Ghana according to the Labour Act and Constitution. It discusses the key rights and responsibilities of each party. Employers' rights include employing and managing workers, while their duties are providing work tools, paying wages, ensuring safety, training workers, and protecting their interests. Employees' rights encompass working in safe conditions, equal pay, leave time, and joining unions. Their duties consist of conscientious work, following instructions, enhancing productivity, and protecting the employer's property. Understanding each party's rights and obligations is important for a healthy work environment free of conflicts.

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Ghana Employment Rights & Duties

The document outlines the rights and duties of employers and employees under an employment contract in Ghana according to the Labour Act and Constitution. It discusses the key rights and responsibilities of each party. Employers' rights include employing and managing workers, while their duties are providing work tools, paying wages, ensuring safety, training workers, and protecting their interests. Employees' rights encompass working in safe conditions, equal pay, leave time, and joining unions. Their duties consist of conscientious work, following instructions, enhancing productivity, and protecting the employer's property. Understanding each party's rights and obligations is important for a healthy work environment free of conflicts.

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LABOUR LAWS AND RIGHTS AND DUTIES UNDER THE CONTRACT OF

UNIT 2 SECTION
INDUSTRIAL 4
RELATIONS Unit 2, section 4: Rights and duties under the contract of employment
EMPLOYMENT

Employers and employees have responsibilities to each other. They also


expect their rights to be upheld by the other party in the employment
relationship. These rights and responsibilities are governed by detailed
employment legislation or the employment contract. In Ghana, employee
rights and entitlements are protected by the Labour Act and the 1992
Constitution of Ghana. The two documents provide protection for
employees and employers who feel their rights have been breached by the
other party.

At the end of this section, students should be able to:


 appreciate the importance of the Labour Act in protecting the rights and
duties of employers and employees;
 list and explain at least five of the rights or duties of employers and
employees

Rights of employer
The rights of an employer include the right to:
 Employ a worker, discipline , transfer, promote and terminate the
employment of the worker;
 Formulate policies, execute plans and programmes to set targets;
 Modify, extend or cease operations; and
 Determine the type of products to make or sell and the prices of its
goods and services.

Duties of employers
In any contract of employment or collective agreement, the duties of an
employer include the duty to:
 Provide work and appropriate raw materials, machinery, equipment and
tools;
 Pay the agreed remuneration at the time and place agreed on in the
contract of employment or collective agreement or by custom without
any deduction except deduction permitted by law or agreed between the
employer and the worker;
 Take all practicable steps to ensure that the worker is free from risk of
personal injury or damage to his or her health during and in course of
the worker’s employment or while lawfully on the employer’s premises;
 Develop the human resources by way of training and retraining of the
workers;
 Provide and ensure the operation of an adequate procedure for discipline
of the workers;
 Furnish the worker with a copy of the worker’s contract of employment;
 Keep open the channels of communication with the workers; and
 Protect the interest of the workers.

60 UEW/IEDE
LABOUR LAWS AND
Unit 2, section 4: Rights and duties under the contract of employment INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

Rights of a worker
The rights of a worker include the right to:
 Work under satisfactory, safe and healthy conditions;
 Receive equal pay for equal work without distinction of any kind;
 Have rest, leisure and reasonable limitation of working hours and period
of holidays with pay as well as remuneration for public holidays;
 From or join a trade union;
 Be trained and retrained for the development of his or her skills; and
 Receive information relevant to his or her work.

Duties of workers
The duties of a worker in any contract of employment or collective
agreement include the duty to:
 Work conscientiously in the lawfully chosen occupation;
 Report for work regularly and punctually;
 Enhance productivity;
 Exercise due care in the execution of assigned work;
 Obey lawful instructions regarding the organization and execution of his
or her work;
 Take all reasonable care for the safety and health of fellow workers;
 Protect the interest of the employer; and
 Take proper care of the property of the employer entrusted to the worker
or under the immediate control of the worker.

The rights and obligations of an employee and employer towards each other
form an important part of the employment relationship. Unless each party is
aware of these rights and duties, and those of the other party, it is will be
very difficult for parties in the employment contract to provide a safe, sound
and healthy industrial environment that may be free of conflicts, strikes and
other forms of distortions.

Self-assessment questions
(1) List any five duties of the employer under the employment contract in
Ghana
(2) What are the major duties of the employee in Ghana?
(3) Explain any five rights of the employee and the employer

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