General News of Friday, 24 May 2019Source: Graphic.com.ghPay employees on maternity leave from pension contributions - H/R officer suggests to governmentAkwelley Bulley (2nd left), Director, Human Resources, UMB BankAn Industrial Relations Officer, Mrs Rose Kakari-Annan, has suggested to the government to allow corporate organisations and small and medium firms to use part of pension contributions of their employees to pay their maternity leave. She argued that some of these organisation were unable to pay their female employees when they proceeded on maternity leave, due to financial constraints, pointing out that, the suggestion, when adopted in Ghana, would help women to save their jobs, reduce the cost of burden of maternity leave on employers and motivate women to have children after getting employed. Advanced countriesShe explained that the policy, which was practised in advanced countries, did not require employers to pay their workers who go on maternity leave, but rather allowed individuals to draw against their Social Security benefits to cover their maternity leave. The two-day conference was organised by the Ghana Employers Association (GEA) on the theme “Women in HR and the future of work”. The Executive Director of GEA, Mr Alex Frimpong, said the HR profession had evolved from being a male-dominated area to a women area, recalling how some HR women were attacked in the past in the course of their work.

Source: GhanaWeb May 24, 2019 07:56 UTC