Ghanaian workers forced to apologize to director's dog

General News on Wednesday, January 16th, 2019

Source: Starrfmonline.com

2019-01-16

Ghanaian workers at GHUMCO (a Japanese home computer manufacturer) in Takoradi, western region, accused factory manager Zhu and other Chinese officials. , to have violated their basic rights by forcing them to apologize to their dogs.

According to the workers, most of them were victims of dog bites on the premises of the company without any medical treatment or protection from the company.

The injured workers who spoke to Empire News said strangely that any worker who complains of dog bite is forced to write an apology letter to the dog or will be fired.

"If the Chinese managers open their dogs at night and bite the workers and complain, the Chinese owners will ask you to write a letter and apologize to the dog," said an employee of Emmanuel Ohene Gyan, from Empire News.

The working poor also lamented the lack of compensation and compensation for injured workers, adding that the safety measures taken in the factory were bad, that wages were low and that the hours of work were long.

Elizabeth Acquah, Western West Regional Manager, told Empire News that Chinese society officials had been invited last year to remove dogs from the company's premises and did not understand why these dogs were always there.

She suggested that the Regional Security Council would be invited to take the necessary measures to ensure the safety of Ghanaian workers.

"I'll make sure this case stops immediately … because dogs can not bite people. Human beings will then be asked to write letters of apology to the dogs. They were instructed to remove the dogs. Otherwise, we will report to the Regional Security Council.

"It's not allowed, it's a violation of their rights at work and a dehumanization of the workforce, it's not allowed." I will report back to the intensive care unit so that we move on to action. "