7.0 ALLOWANCES Besides offering fair and competitive remuneration packages to its employees. Management believes that employees who are required by the company to engage in activities or handle responsibilities over and above what they are required to normally do should be paid additional benefits. Towards this end allowances as stated in this section will be paid to employees who qualify for said allowances. What the law says: Overtime Compensation The normal working hours are 08 hours a day and 40 hours a week. Worker may work for longer hours, provided that the average working hours do not exceed the normal working hours, i.e., eight hours per day and forty hours per week. However, the law does not fix the rate of overtime remuneration. Overtime hours are usually paid at 150% of the normal hourly wage rate. Source: §33-38 of the Labour Act 2003 (Act 651) Night Work Compensation Labour Act defines "night work" in relation to women only and means work at any time within a period of eleven consecutive hours that includes the seven consecutive hours occurring between 22:00 and 07:00 of the following day. In the industrial undertakings influenced by the seasons, instead of 11 hours, 10 hours limit may be used in sixty days of the year. There is no provision in the law on premium pay for night work. Weekend / Public Holiday Work Compensation There is no provision in the law regarding weekend/public holiday compensation for permanent workers. However, the temporary and casual workers, if they have to work on a public holiday, are entitled to 200% of the normal rate of wages. If a worker has worked only fraction of the whole day (for some hours), he is entitled to 200% of the normal wage rate for those hours. Sources: § 77 of the Labour Act 2003 (Act 651) 7.1 Out-of-Station Allowance 1. An Employee who is required in the course of his duties to travel away from his usual place of work for a full working day and stays overnight shall
10. Failure to obey a lawful instruction. 11. Non-compliance with laid-down procedures relating to one's work. 12. Disorderly behavior. 13. Threatening violence. 14. Riotous behavior. 15. Intimidation. 16. Smoking in non-smoking areas. 17. Not using or wearing prescribed safety equipment. 18. Careless driving. 19. Loitering on Company property without permission. 20. Failure to report for a scheduled and agreed overtime shift. 21. Sleeping during scheduled work hours. 22. Any other grounds recognized by law as beingg sufficient. SCHEDULE D: SCHEDULE ON ALLOWANCES AND OTHER BENEFITS (UNICOF JANUARY 2010 TO DECEMBER 2011) NO BENEFIT REMARKS I OUT OF STATION ALLOWANCE *Transport and Accommodation as appropriate Plus *Daily meals allowance if accommodation is GHc20.00 - per day GHc 45.00 - per day GHc 12.00 per day GHc12.00 per Where an employee is required by his work to spend a day / normal working hours within a day away from his recognized station of employment
each year of service effective January 1991. 9 MEDICALS *Staff *Dependants(Spouse & 4 biological children under 18 years) *Spectacles NHIS plus drugs not covered by NHIS. NHIS plus GHc 200.00 Strictly NHIS. Strictly to access NHIS as operated by government. GH4c120.00 Strictly NHIS accredited Medical/Pharmaceutical facilities. Registration/Renewal to be borne by company and GHc 200 to be claimed strictly from NHIS accredited medical/ pharmaceutical facilities. Annual Ceiling To be paid every 2 years. 10 DUTY CALL IN ALLOWANCE GHc 12.00 daily When an officer is recalled from home for duty outside his normal hours of work. ie, weekends. 11 LONG SERVICE AWARD To be paid when an employee attains the following years in the Service 10 yrs:- l Months salary + Cert, of service 15 yrs:-1 and 1/4 Months salary + Cert, of service 20 yrs :-1 and 3/4 Months salary + Cert, of service 25 yrs: 2 Months salary + Cert, of service 30 & above - 2 and 1/2