Minimum Wages in Ghana with effect from 01-05-2014 to 30-04-2015

Last update: 16-09-2014

Currency: GHS (Cedi (Ghana))

Minimum Wage per Day
6.00 Hours per day specified: 8

Notes / Footnote

The Revised Daily Minimum Wage for the year 2014 is fixed at GHȻ6. The new wages came into effect from May 1, 2014. It has been increased by about 14,5 percent from GHȻ5.24 by the National Tripartite Committee (NTC) at the consultation of its 2014 National Daily Minimum Wage (NDMW) meeting on April 30, 2014.
After deep negotiations, government also agreed to give public sector workers 10 percent of their basic annual salary as Cost of Living Allowance (COLA).
In the Labour Act 651, every worker is entitled to be paid his or her remuneration for public holidays.
Where a worker in an undertaking works after the hours of work fixed by the rules of that undertaking, the additional hours done shall be regarded as overtime work. Notwithstanding, a worker may be required to work beyond the fixed hours of work without additional pay in certain exceptional circumstances including accident threatening human lives or the very existence of the undertaking.
In any undertaking every worker is entitled to not less than fifteen working days leave with full pay in any calender year of continuous service.
By law the maximum working week is 45 hours but collective bargaining has established a 40-hour week for most unionized workers.
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