The Trades Union Congress (TUC) says if President Mahama is committed to creating jobs as he stated in the State of the Nation Address (SONA), then he should immediately re-instate workers appointed after the December 7 elections who have been dismissed.
Reacting to the SONA delivered to Parliament on February 27, the Deputy Secretary General of TUC, Dr Nyarko Otoo said, if President Mahama is ready to create jobs, he should start by re-instating the sacked workers. "We think that as a start, the President should consider our plea to stop the revocation of employment in the public sector, because in one way you cannot talk about solving the youth unemployment problem while issuing a fiat that a large number of people are also being rendered unemployed. "We recognize the challenge with the appointments that were made and as a gesture of goodwill from the father of the country, we think that he should stop the revocation as starting point in solving the unemployment challenge that Ghana faces," Dr Otoo appealed.
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Kwabena Nyarko Otoo who spoke with our labour affairs correspondent, Daniel Opoku on February 28.
