Baffour Awuah said : “Indeed, if we want to make sure that we all have good standard of living, even during our old age, then the best way is to ensure that we are put on social security,”

PeaceFMGhana Tuesday, March 22, 2022 2:59:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah noted : “Indeed, if we want to make sure that we all have a good standard of living even during our old age, then the best way is to ensure we are put on social security,”

BFTOnline Tuesday, March 22, 2022 2:34:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah stated : "Nananom, kindly drum home the need for workers in the informal sector to contribute to the scheme since it will be beneficial to them during their old age. Our target groups in the informal sector include hairdressers associations, market women, transport unions, beauticians associations, among others,"

PeaceFMGhana Monday, October 25, 2021 3:25:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah said ( about Tan Ching Chin ) : “With close to 15 million people receiving their Ghana cards, it is only proper that public institutions mandated by law to use the Ghana Card commence the processes to do so, in line with the bigger digitalisation agenda,”

PeaceFMGhana Thursday, June 17, 2021 2:34:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah observed : “When organisations engage stakeholders before the introduction of new programmes or initiatives, it reduces anxiety and suspicion among them. This is particularly important in circumstances where the relationship among employers, labour and SSNIT has not always been exactly cordial,” “After the merger is done, I am optimistic that it will bring down further the average 10 working days it takes SSNIT to process and pay benefits to retirees,”

PeaceFMGhana Thursday, June 17, 2021 2:34:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah said : “Among the lessons learnt is the need for Government and industry to work together in a common effort to enforce the protocols and guidelines for fighting the pandemic. The neglect of any aspect of our shared responsibilities would have a negative and possibly fatal impact on lives. I, therefore, urge you to take the COVID-19 protocols very seriously,”

PeaceFMGhana Wednesday, May 5, 2021 3:43:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah said : “On your plea, I can assure you that I will discuss with His Excellency the President and bring you his response,”

CitiFMGhana Tuesday, April 27, 2021 9:16:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah told : “I have raised this on several platforms; when you are looking at the sustainability of pensions, when you have a shorter working period, it doesn’t auger well for your pension schemes. When people stay more and work they can accumulate more funds and they are also able to retire on a handsome pension than when their working period is very short. But I must also admit that it has its disadvantages too. Some of the disadvantages include the fact that we live in a country where unemployment is considerable high. More people are leaving school and want to be engaged so if you have some tiered hands still hanging around it would be difficult to recruit new once, it becomes a concern,”

BFTOnline Wednesday, March 3, 2021 7:59:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah told : “I don’t have the exact figures for end of 2020, but as at September 2020 the figure the ministry reported on was around three million jobs. I will make the details available to the committee. These jobs are a combination of the public and private sector. I am prepared to defend this number any time,”

BFTOnline Wednesday, March 3, 2021 7:59:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah said : “When people stay longer in work, they accumulate more funds and are able to retire on a more handsome pension than when their working period is very short”

PeaceFMGhana Thursday, February 18, 2021 3:07:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah said : “I have sent a memorandum to the Cabinet, giving details of the work we have done and requesting it to lift the ban,”

PeaceFMGhana Thursday, February 18, 2021 3:07:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah asked : “Given the fact that we may also have a large number of unemployed persons waiting to be engaged, there is a debate. Would you like to keep your old workforce at the workplace and then allow the young blood to remain on the water-bank, or you would like to give space to the young ones?”

BFTOnline Monday, October 26, 2020 4:16:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah added : "It’s sad that cars keep knocking and killing as if we do not care about human life. The youth are angry and if they don’t find a solution to our plight, they’re about to go on a demonstration, because it seems that’s what the leaders of this nation understand"

ghanaweb Thursday, October 8, 2020 8:14:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah stated : “We observed that whiles the pay cuts were rampant in large and medium scale establishments, workers in micro and small scale enterprises suffer most of the job loses,”

modernghana Sunday, August 30, 2020 2:57:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah said : “Some employees had to cope with job losses and pay cut for their enterprises to cope with the disruption in the supply chain caused by the pandemic. We have observed that while the pay cut was rampant in large and medium scale establishments, workers in micro and small enterprises suffered most of the job losses. In terms of pay cuts, large and medium scale establishments had to adopt pay cut strategies to keep some workers on their payroll. Generally, the 878 non household establishment surveyed recorded 31.5 percent job losses. In terms of pay cuts, 40 percent of the workers interviewed suffered between less than 10 and more than 50 percent pay cuts to keep their jobs”

BFTOnline Friday, August 28, 2020 7:10:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah told : “It is important to note that the picture would have been more devastating if the survey was extended to workers in the informal sector where over 80 percent of the workforce is engaged. We concentrated mainly on the formal private sector even though there was some bit of informal sector addition. We took away public sector institutions because the public sector is mainly paid by the government and during the period the government tried to pay all of them. If we had included them the percentages would have come down,”

BFTOnline Friday, August 28, 2020 7:10:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah said : “As we implement our industrialisation agenda with emphasis on value addition to our abandoned raw materials, the online mall will offer our medium, small microenterprises an opportunity to showcase their products and services to the larger African market. This will further boost trade with other African countries within the context of the continental free trade agreement,”

BFTOnline Friday, June 5, 2020 11:50:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah added : “This roadmap seeks to provide the enabling environment that will facilitate transition of various units within the informal economy into formality,”

BFTOnline Wednesday, May 27, 2020 10:00:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah added : “This roadmap seeks to provide the enabling environment that will facilitate transition of various units within the informal economy into formality,”

BFTOnline Friday, November 15, 2019 6:57:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah said : “My responsibility as the Employment Minister is to protect the right of every worker so I will not sit down and watch if workers are not allowed to unionize,”

3NewsGhana Monday, October 7, 2019 9:34:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah said : “My responsibility as the Employment Minister is to protect the right of every worker so I will not sit down and watch if workers are not allowed to unionize,”

CitiFMGhana Monday, October 7, 2019 9:51:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah explained : “In fact, it took the intervention of His Excellence, the President to step in to stop that, otherwise, the lay-off was going to happen because new technologies have been introduced and would not require the same number of persons operating at the old port,”

allghananews Thursday, August 22, 2019 6:58:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah explained : “In fact, it took the intervention of His Excellence, the President to step in to stop that, otherwise, the lay-off was going to happen because new technologies have been introduced and would not require the same number of persons operating at the old port,”

PeaceFMGhana Thursday, August 22, 2019 6:57:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah noted : “If you come out with legislation and the people who are supposed to implement the legislation are not up to what is required of them, then certainly you will not get the best out of that,”

CitiFMGhana Wednesday, July 24, 2019 3:51:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah added : “This roadmap seeks to provide the enabling environment that will facilitate transition of various units within the informal economy into formality,”

BFTOnline Thursday, July 4, 2019 5:26:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah says : “This MoU, however, is mutually accountable and forms the basis for an engagement that has not been seen in Ghana before. It is a commitment that is reflected in the 2018 mid-year Budget Review,”

ghanaweb Saturday, April 27, 2019 7:12:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah said : “As we implement our industrialisation agenda with emphasis on value addition to our abandoned raw materials, the online mall will offer our medium, small microenterprises an opportunity to showcase their products and services to the larger African market. This will further boost trade with other African countries within the context of the continental free trade agreement,”

BFTOnline Friday, January 25, 2019 10:31:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah said : "If you would go all the way to support that particular party, then perhaps you would have missed the point. So much as we would advise the appointees to be apolitical as possible, then we would also have to advise whoever is appointed there not to meddle in partisan politics,"

myjoyonline Wednesday, February 1, 2017 12:04:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah said : “Indeed, if we want to make sure that we all have good standard of living, even during our old age, then the best way is to ensure that we are put on social security,”

PeaceFMGhana Tuesday, March 22, 2022 2:59:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah noted : “Indeed, if we want to make sure that we all have a good standard of living even during our old age, then the best way is to ensure we are put on social security,”

BFTOnline Tuesday, March 22, 2022 2:34:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah stated : "Nananom, kindly drum home the need for workers in the informal sector to contribute to the scheme since it will be beneficial to them during their old age. Our target groups in the informal sector include hairdressers associations, market women, transport unions, beauticians associations, among others,"

PeaceFMGhana Monday, October 25, 2021 3:25:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah said ( about Tan Ching Chin ) : “With close to 15 million people receiving their Ghana cards, it is only proper that public institutions mandated by law to use the Ghana Card commence the processes to do so, in line with the bigger digitalisation agenda,”

PeaceFMGhana Thursday, June 17, 2021 2:34:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah observed : “When organisations engage stakeholders before the introduction of new programmes or initiatives, it reduces anxiety and suspicion among them. This is particularly important in circumstances where the relationship among employers, labour and SSNIT has not always been exactly cordial,” “After the merger is done, I am optimistic that it will bring down further the average 10 working days it takes SSNIT to process and pay benefits to retirees,”

PeaceFMGhana Thursday, June 17, 2021 2:34:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah said : “Among the lessons learnt is the need for Government and industry to work together in a common effort to enforce the protocols and guidelines for fighting the pandemic. The neglect of any aspect of our shared responsibilities would have a negative and possibly fatal impact on lives. I, therefore, urge you to take the COVID-19 protocols very seriously,”

PeaceFMGhana Wednesday, May 5, 2021 3:43:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah said : “On your plea, I can assure you that I will discuss with His Excellency the President and bring you his response,”

CitiFMGhana Tuesday, April 27, 2021 9:16:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah told : “I have raised this on several platforms; when you are looking at the sustainability of pensions, when you have a shorter working period, it doesn’t auger well for your pension schemes. When people stay more and work they can accumulate more funds and they are also able to retire on a handsome pension than when their working period is very short. But I must also admit that it has its disadvantages too. Some of the disadvantages include the fact that we live in a country where unemployment is considerable high. More people are leaving school and want to be engaged so if you have some tiered hands still hanging around it would be difficult to recruit new once, it becomes a concern,”

BFTOnline Wednesday, March 3, 2021 7:59:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah told : “I don’t have the exact figures for end of 2020, but as at September 2020 the figure the ministry reported on was around three million jobs. I will make the details available to the committee. These jobs are a combination of the public and private sector. I am prepared to defend this number any time,”

BFTOnline Wednesday, March 3, 2021 7:59:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah said : “When people stay longer in work, they accumulate more funds and are able to retire on a more handsome pension than when their working period is very short”

PeaceFMGhana Thursday, February 18, 2021 3:07:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah said : “I have sent a memorandum to the Cabinet, giving details of the work we have done and requesting it to lift the ban,”

PeaceFMGhana Thursday, February 18, 2021 3:07:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah asked : “Given the fact that we may also have a large number of unemployed persons waiting to be engaged, there is a debate. Would you like to keep your old workforce at the workplace and then allow the young blood to remain on the water-bank, or you would like to give space to the young ones?”

BFTOnline Monday, October 26, 2020 4:16:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah added : "It’s sad that cars keep knocking and killing as if we do not care about human life. The youth are angry and if they don’t find a solution to our plight, they’re about to go on a demonstration, because it seems that’s what the leaders of this nation understand"

ghanaweb Thursday, October 8, 2020 8:14:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah stated : “We observed that whiles the pay cuts were rampant in large and medium scale establishments, workers in micro and small scale enterprises suffer most of the job loses,”

modernghana Sunday, August 30, 2020 2:57:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah said : “Some employees had to cope with job losses and pay cut for their enterprises to cope with the disruption in the supply chain caused by the pandemic. We have observed that while the pay cut was rampant in large and medium scale establishments, workers in micro and small enterprises suffered most of the job losses. In terms of pay cuts, large and medium scale establishments had to adopt pay cut strategies to keep some workers on their payroll. Generally, the 878 non household establishment surveyed recorded 31.5 percent job losses. In terms of pay cuts, 40 percent of the workers interviewed suffered between less than 10 and more than 50 percent pay cuts to keep their jobs”

BFTOnline Friday, August 28, 2020 7:10:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah told : “It is important to note that the picture would have been more devastating if the survey was extended to workers in the informal sector where over 80 percent of the workforce is engaged. We concentrated mainly on the formal private sector even though there was some bit of informal sector addition. We took away public sector institutions because the public sector is mainly paid by the government and during the period the government tried to pay all of them. If we had included them the percentages would have come down,”

BFTOnline Friday, August 28, 2020 7:10:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah said : “As we implement our industrialisation agenda with emphasis on value addition to our abandoned raw materials, the online mall will offer our medium, small microenterprises an opportunity to showcase their products and services to the larger African market. This will further boost trade with other African countries within the context of the continental free trade agreement,”

BFTOnline Friday, June 5, 2020 11:50:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah added : “This roadmap seeks to provide the enabling environment that will facilitate transition of various units within the informal economy into formality,”

BFTOnline Wednesday, May 27, 2020 10:00:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah added : “This roadmap seeks to provide the enabling environment that will facilitate transition of various units within the informal economy into formality,”

BFTOnline Friday, November 15, 2019 6:57:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah said : “My responsibility as the Employment Minister is to protect the right of every worker so I will not sit down and watch if workers are not allowed to unionize,”

3NewsGhana Monday, October 7, 2019 9:34:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah said : “My responsibility as the Employment Minister is to protect the right of every worker so I will not sit down and watch if workers are not allowed to unionize,”

CitiFMGhana Monday, October 7, 2019 9:51:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah explained : “In fact, it took the intervention of His Excellence, the President to step in to stop that, otherwise, the lay-off was going to happen because new technologies have been introduced and would not require the same number of persons operating at the old port,”

allghananews Thursday, August 22, 2019 6:58:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah explained : “In fact, it took the intervention of His Excellence, the President to step in to stop that, otherwise, the lay-off was going to happen because new technologies have been introduced and would not require the same number of persons operating at the old port,”

PeaceFMGhana Thursday, August 22, 2019 6:57:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah noted : “If you come out with legislation and the people who are supposed to implement the legislation are not up to what is required of them, then certainly you will not get the best out of that,”

CitiFMGhana Wednesday, July 24, 2019 3:51:00 PM EAT

Baffour Awuah added : “This roadmap seeks to provide the enabling environment that will facilitate transition of various units within the informal economy into formality,”

BFTOnline Thursday, July 4, 2019 5:26:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah says : “This MoU, however, is mutually accountable and forms the basis for an engagement that has not been seen in Ghana before. It is a commitment that is reflected in the 2018 mid-year Budget Review,”

ghanaweb Saturday, April 27, 2019 7:12:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah said : “As we implement our industrialisation agenda with emphasis on value addition to our abandoned raw materials, the online mall will offer our medium, small microenterprises an opportunity to showcase their products and services to the larger African market. This will further boost trade with other African countries within the context of the continental free trade agreement,”

BFTOnline Friday, January 25, 2019 10:31:00 AM EAT

Baffour Awuah said : "If you would go all the way to support that particular party, then perhaps you would have missed the point. So much as we would advise the appointees to be apolitical as possible, then we would also have to advise whoever is appointed there not to meddle in partisan politics,"

myjoyonline Wednesday, February 1, 2017 12:04:00 AM EAT