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Ghana Post to handle social welfare disbursement
Accra, Jan 18, Ghanadot/GNA – The Ghana
Post Company Limited has signed a Memorandum of
Understanding with the Ministry of Manpower Development
under which monies would be disbursed free of charge to the
vulnerable in society as a form of social welfare.
The disbursement would be done on quarterly basis in the
districts where social welfare personnel would help identify
those in need to enable personnel of Ghana Post to allocate
monies to such individuals.
Mr Kofi Dua-Adonteng, Managing Director of the Company
announced this in Accra on Friday at the opening of the
second Ghana Post Divisional Delegates Conference, being
attended by about 65 delegates from across the country.
Mr Dua-Adonteng explained that the monies would serve as a
form of financial support for the vulnerable to “look after
themselves, pay for their children’ school fees, and even
feed themselves and to reduce their suffering”.
“The project is expected to start after March this year as
discussions continue on the way forward as well as how to
sustain it.”
The Managing Director also announced that the Company had
been contracted to sell the government’s jubilee bonds of
which allocations had been received already for onward
sales.
Mr Dua-Adonteng said the conference’s theme:
“Diversification of Postal Services, Challenges and
Prospects - The Role of the Union”, was fascinating because
it was in connection with changing circumstances under which
the company found itself in the face of globalistaion,
regulation, competition, and privatisation.
He, therefore, urged the Postal Union to play its role of
not only ensuring industrial harmony, but together with
management get workers to be committed to their work to help
break the cycle of gloom, low moral and low wages.
Mr. Mathias Kojo Gyan, Ghana Post Divisional Chairman, said
trade unions were legal institutions formed to protect the
rights of workers and as such management should be ever
ready to “jaw-jaw” with unions on issues in the spirit of
trust and respect.
He expressed the hope that the theme would inspire both
union and management members to identify appropriate and
profit-making areas of activities and diversify.
Mr Marcellus D. Chanayire, General Manager, Human Resource
management in a speech read for him said the way forward for
Ghana Post was to ensure close collaboration between
management and the union in taking decisions which may be
hard and difficult but necessary to move the company
forward.
Delegates would review the rules and regulations of the
union, elect new officers and discuss the way forward for
the next four years.
GNA
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