The Minority in Parliament has called for the immediate reinstatement of more than 1,500 public-sector workers dismissed after the change of government in January 2025, describing the mass terminations as “arbitrary, unjust and harmful” to young Ghanaians entering the labour market.

In a press statement marking Ghana’s 69th Independence Anniversary on March 6, the Minority said recent findings by a committee established by the Chief of Staff had validated its long-held position that many of the dismissals lacked justification.

According to the statement, the committee examined 2,080 cases across 36 public institutions, including the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Ghana Highway Authority, Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, National Health Insurance Authority, Metro Mass Transit, Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) and the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR).

The Minority noted that out of the total number of cases reviewed, 1,539 appointments were cleared as properly made, while only 541 were recommended for revocation on procedural grounds.

The caucus argued that the findings effectively confirmed that a large number of the dismissed workers had legitimate appointments.

“These findings constitute a formal admission by the government’s own apparatus that well over 1,500 workers — many of them young graduates entering the labour market for the first time — had no legitimate basis for dismissal,” the statement said.

“The sweeping nature of those terminations stands exposed for what the Minority always maintained: arbitrary, unjust and harmful to the very citizens the state is bound to protect.”

The Minority therefore demanded the immediate reinstatement of all validated workers, payment of withheld salaries and compensation for the hardship caused.

“Justice delayed must not become justice denied,” the statement emphasised, adding that the caucus would deploy “every lawful parliamentary and legal mechanism at its disposal to ensure full and prompt redress.”