Wages and Working Conditions of Private Security Workers in Ghana

Wages and Working Conditions of Private Security Workers
Majority (68%) of the respondents are permanent workers with open-ended
contract; followed by contract workers (25%) and casual workers (6%). For
most of the workers it was not clear who their employers were: the security
company or the client companies and individuals.
Male Female All
Level of
Education
Permanent
Contract
Casual
Part-Time
National Service/
Industrial Attachment
Total
Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent
280 70.35 51 60 332 68.45
91 22.86 30 35.29 122 25.15
24 6.03 4 4.71 28 25.15
2 0.5 0 0 2 0.41
1 0.25 0 0 1 0.21
398 100 85 100 485 ß
Table 16 : The employment status of respondents
Source: Survey data
5.2.2. Hours of Work and Overtime
Section 33 of the Labour Act (2003) states that the hours of work of a
worker shall be a maximum of eight hours a day or forty hours a week.
Section 34 provides exceptions to Section 33 in the following areas:
a. where shorter hours of work are fixed, the hours of work on the
other days of the week may be proportionately longer than eight (8) hours
but shall not exceed nine (9) hours a day of a total of 40 hours a week;
b. where longer hours of work are fixed, the average number of hours
of work reckoned over a period of four (4) weeks or less shall not exceed
eight (8) hours per day or forty hours per week or;
c. where longer hours of work are fixed, the average number of hours
over the period of one year shall not exceed eight (8) hours per day or 40
hours per week, in the case of seasonal work.
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