Labour expert disputes statistics indicating ‘only 1.5m Ghanaians have decent jobs’

A Labour Expert, Austin Gamey, has disputed a TUC statement that only 1.5 million Ghanaians have decent jobs. 

He said the work of the farmer, the tailor, carpenter and vulcanizer cannot be described as indecent. 

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) underscored the need for the government to create decent jobs to move the nation out of poverty.

“We need jobs to take us out of poverty. We can get out of poverty only when we manage to create decent jobs for our people,” the Secretary-General of the TUC, Dr Yaw Baah, stressed.

Speaking at the 2017 National May Day Forum in Accra on Wednesday, Dr Baah said figures from the Ghana Statistical Service indicated that only about 1.5 million out of the 13 million Ghanaians, between the ages of 15 and 60 years were engagged in what could be termed as decent jobs.

The forum was organised by the TUC, with funding from the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), a German non-governmental organisation (NGO), ahead of the May Day celebration on May 1, next Monday. 

GBC