Career Advice

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Minister responsible for Manpower, Youth and Employment by section 174 of the Labour Act, 2003 (Act 651) these regulations are made this 28th day of May 2007.

Employment Agencies

Employment data

1. An employer shall supply employment data specified in the Schedule and any other information that the Labour Department may prescribe.

Public Employment Centre

2. (1) The Minister shall by Executive Instru­ment establish Public Employment Centres.

(2) A public employment centre shall give vocational guidance and advice to persons between the ages of fifteen and twenty-one.

Private employment agency

3.0) A private employment agency means a body corporate which acts as an intermedi­ary for the purpose of procuring employ­ment for a worker or recruiting a worker for an employer.

(2) A person who desires to establish and operate a private employment agency shall

(a) register the agency with the Registrar-General as a body corporate before applying to the Minister to be granted a licence,

(b) pay a licence fee of five million cedis, and

(c) pay a security deposit of GHC 25,000 (Twenty-five thousand Ghana Cedis) as security to cover operations incase of repatriation of illegal or illegitimate worker who may be sent abroad by them or have to be repatriated at a cost to the country.

(3) A person who desires to establish a private employment agency shall submit a licence registration form and pay an initial fee of five million cedis for a period of one year from the date of the granting of the licence by the Minister.

(4) An existing licence shall be renewed two months before the expiration of the licence with a renewal form and the payment of three million cedis for a period of two years from the date of the renewal being granted.

(5) The Minister, shall direct the Chief Labour Officer or a Factory Inspector to inspect the premises, facilities and the staff of the private employment agency within one month after receipt of the application, before a licence is granted to the agency.

(6) The Minister shall issue the licence if satisfied with the report of the Chief Labour Officer or Factory Inspector that the premises and facilities meet the requirement of an employment agency..

(7) Where the conditions for the grant of application are not satisfied, the licence shall be refused, and if a licence has already been granted, it shall be revoked and the Minister shall give reasons for the refusal or revoca­tion.

(8) The criteria for the grant or refusal of a licence shall include availability of human resource and management capacity of the agency.