The Trades Union Congress is blaming the increasing incidence of violation of workers’ rights on government. The Union says the Labour Department of the Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare has failed to execute its mandate of ensuring that workers’ rights are protected. The Executive Secretary of the TUC Kofi Asamoah accused government of not providing the needed resources to enable the department fulfill its mandate. The TUC boss tells Joy News government ought to be doing more to hold to account, employers who violate the rights of workers. He explained some of the rights of workers under the labour law, but which he said are being violated with impunity by foreigners and employers. “The worker has the rights under the labour law to work under satisfactory, safe and healthy condition; the workers’ right is to receive equal pay for equal work done; the worker has rights to have rest, pleasure and reasonable limitation of working hours and period of holidays; during holidays when he works he has to be paid for that,” he said He maintained the intention is to ensure that these rights are respected by employers but he said on the contrary, “the information we receive which keeps on rising everyday is that workers rights are really being violated particularly when they want to form a union of their choice." He blamed the paucity of resources provided by the government to the department which he said is too limited for a meaningful work to be done. Source: Joy News/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana