Some aggrieved workers of the National Labor Commission have petitioned the Minister for Employment and Labor Relations, Nii Armah Ashietey, to as a matter of urgency probe the conduct of the Commission’s Chairman and other executives.
According to the workers, the executives have been lackadaisical and non-performing” since the commission assumed office, they have never met with the management team of the secretariat nor staff members apart from only one meeting before they started work”, the workers alleged.
The executives who have been at the receiving end of the workers attack include: Edward Briku-Boadu, the Chairperson, Dan Acheampong , Employers representative, who also doubles as the Deputy Chairperson, Kwame Boni and Mr. Dennis Vormawor, both representatives for the Organized Labour.
Others also include Mrs. Eva Osei-Numo, Employers representative, Mrs. Akanbangbiem Agamu Asokea and Mr. Kofi Attoh, both Government representatives.
The workers in a press release said their petition to the minister, especially the against the chairman of the Commission was not on personal grounds, but rather on “grounds of his pejorative nature, divide and rule tactics, disrespect for staff, conflict of interest, incompetence and poor human relations.”
They further described the chairman as one who was well noted for his disregard for laid down internal systems and procedures with impunity. “It is on record that these concerns by the staff were expressed in clear unambiguous terms to the former Commission under the Chairmanship of Mr. Joseph Ayitey, and so they are verifiable facts….Unfortunately, no action was taken, Mr. Briku had the temerity to go to town that nobody could do anything to him …some of the former commissioners who happens to be on the current commission are very aware of these issues”, one of the aggrieved worker whom we garb with the cloak of anonymity stated.
In the release signed by one Alex Oppong Boateng, Eric Omane Yeboah and some other 23 workers, they also want the Minister to investigate the Chairman and his other Executives over what they described as a fraudulent advertisement for the appointment of an executive secretary.
They lamented that, aside the shady deals involved in the procedure “the qualifications prescribed in the advertisement were contrary to the scheme of service developed by the Management Service Department (MSD) that was done in consultation with the Commission when Mr. Boadu was the Executive Secretary” adding that,” the MSD Consultancy Services for the development of the scheme of service was paid for with government funds and cannot just be ignored. In all these, due processes have been flouted superciliously and with impunity by the Chairman and the members of the Commission.”
Amongst many other allegations of corrupt practices against the Chairman and the other Executives, the workers further alleged Mr. Briku- Boadu refused to officially hand-over during his expiration period as the then-Executive Secretary.
“It took due diligence of the Ag. Executive Secretary per a letter drawing his attention to that criminal act at the time government is still struggling to meet its purse for active workers…he only refunded those illegal withdrawals amidst protestations and hesitations but the Ag. Executive Secretary stood her grounds,” they explained.
Meanwhile, attempt to reach the Chairman for his side of the story proved futile.
