Speaking on Radio Gold’s newspaper review, he challenged the striking medical doctors to meet the Commission in court to argue their case since to him, the doctors’ strike is illegal so far as the Labour Act is concerned.
He explained that the doctors together with the Commission, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Minstry of Employment and some labour unions on April 10 this year, held a meeting in which all the parties agreed on a payment schedule to resolve the conflict.
He added that during the meeting, the parties were asked to negotiate to find a way out to address the issue.
He stressed that the Commission has sued the doctors in order to get them back to work and believed the court will be the final arbiter.
He said the Commission is only enforcing the laws and “invoking its powers as conferred on it” under Section 161 of the Labour Act which states that “once negotiations were still going on, the GMA should call off its strike and return to work. On the 11th of April, 2013, GMA actually met with those parties and signed a memorandum of understanding which clearly indicates that the process of negotiation has started and there was the need for them to return to work. While they complied with one aspect of the directive, they failed to comply with the other aspect of the directive; that is for them to call off the strike and go back to work.”
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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