General News of Thursday, 7 November 2019Source: citinewsroom.comLift ban on recruitment to Gulf States – Employment agencies beg govtMinister for Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour AwuahSome private employment agencies in Ghana are unhappy with government’s continuous ban on recruitment of Ghanaians to the Gulf States. The employment agencies have thus appealed to the government to lift the ban with immediate effect since it is affecting their businesses and their clients. A member of one of the private employment agencies, Nicholas Ohene Agyekum in a Citi News interview said he believes Government took such decision because of the misconception surrounding such recruitments. The private employment agencies complained that, irrespective of the structures put in place, their clients are still being restrained from travelling to the Gulf States. Why the banThe Employment Ministry in June 2017 banned agencies from recruiting Ghanaians for domestic work in Gulf countries.

Source: GhanaWeb November 07, 2019 06:46 UTC