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Legislative
Instrument on Labour Law not before Parliament - Agbotse
Koforidua, March 16, GNA - Mr Francis Agbotse Chairman of
Parliamentary Committee on Subsidiary Legislation on Friday,
said a Legislative Instrument (LI) to support enforcement of
the Labour Law had not been brought before Parliament for
passage and the National Labour Commission was not showing
much interest in its passage.
He explained that if the LI was not passed, enforcement of
the law could be a problem when a major industrial dispute
arose in the country.
Mr Agbotse MP for Ho West announced this at a public forum
for the Committee organized by the Ghana Centre for
Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) in collaboration with
USAID at Koforidua.
He said due to the lack of a supportive LI, the law on
Piracy could not be enforced because the law required an LI
to specify the security device on the tape recording or the
Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) to enable the police enforce
the law.
Mr Agbotse explained that when laws were passed, there was
the need for LI or Constitutional Instrument (CI) to support
their implementation.
Ms Obeng Dapaah, MP for New Abirem and member of the
committee said it had the primary oversight responsibility
to check delegated and unregulated power held by individuals
or bodies at the national and local levels assign to them by
statutory or constitutional instruments.
Nana Kwasi Adjei-Boateng, New Juaben Municipal Chief
Executive, called for a review of the Standing Order 77 of
Parliament for Civil Society Organizations to make
sufficient inputs into draft documents before the Subsidiary
Legislative Committee.
Mr Kojo Asante, Governance and Legal Policy Officer of CDD-Ghana
said for sometime now, the centre had been at the forefront
to help build the capacity of the Parliament of the Fourth
Republic through the support of USAID.
He said the responsibility of the Committee was to ensure
that, bye-laws passed by statutory and constitutional bodies
for their enforcement under the constitution or law were in
consistent with the mother statute, the constitution as well
as other checks.
GNA
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