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WHEREAS the Minister is satisfied
that it is expedient to appoint a
Wages Board in accordance with the
provisions of this Order:
AND WHEREAS the Minister has
complied with the requirements of
section 92 of the Labour Ordinance
as to the publication of a notice
of his intention to make this
order and as to the consideration
of objections:
NOW THEREFORE in exercise of the
powers conferred upon the Minister
by section 92 of the Labour
Ordinance the following Order is
hereby made:—
Order 1—Title.
This Order may be cited as the
Wages Board (Catering Trade
Workers) Order, 1958.
Order 2—Definition of Catering
Trade Workers.
In this Order "catering trade
workers" means those falling
within the Schedule to this Order.
Order 3—Catering Trade Workers
Board Appointed.
There is hereby appointed a Wages
Board to be known as the Catering
Trade Workers Wages Board which
shall consist of the following
persons—
(a) four persons representing
employers elected and appointed
under the provisions of section 93
of the Labour Ordinance;
(b) four persons representing
employees elected and appointed
under the provisions of the said
section 93; and
(c) three persons appointed under
the provisions of section 94 of
the Labour Ordinance.
Order 4—Functions of Catering
Trade Workers Wages Board.
The functions of the said Wages
Board shall be—
(a) to investigate the
remuneration and conditions of
employment of catering trade
workers and to make
recommendations to the Minister as
to the minimum wages to be paid to
and the conditions of employment
of catering trade workers;
(b) to consider any matter
referred to the Wages Board by the
Minister with reference to
industrial conditions of catering
trade workers and to report to the
Minister.
SCHEDULE
DEFINITION OF CATERING TRADE
WORKERS
EMPLOYEES IN HOTELS
1. Persons, other than those whose
salary or wages exceed £300 per
annum, employed in Ghana for the
purpose of the activities carried
on at any of the following
establishments, that is to say—
any hotel, hostel, catering
undertaking, restaurant, canteen,
bar or club, and who are engaged
on any of the following work, that
is to say—
(a) the preparation of food or
drink;
(b) the service of food or drink;
(c) work incidental to such
preparation or service;
(d) work connected with the
provision of living accommodation;
(e) work in connection with any
retail sale of goods on premises
where the main activity is either
the supply of food or drink for
immediate consumption or the
provision of living accommodation
for guests or lodgers or partly
the supply of food or drink as
aforesaid and partly the provision
of living accommodation as
aforesaid;
(f) transport work;
(g) work performed at any office
or at any store or warehouse or
similar place or at any garage or
stable or similar place;
(h) any work other than that
specified in sub-paragraphs (a) to
(g) hereof performed on or about
the premises or place where food
or drink is prepared or served or
where living accommodation is
provided, including work in
connection with any service or
amenity provided on or about such
premises or place.
COOKS AND STEWARDS IN HOSPITALS,
INSTITUTIONS AND EDUCATIONAL
ESTABLISHMENTS
2. Persons, other than those whose
salary or wages exceed £300 per
annum, employed in Ghana for the
purpose of activities carried on
at any of the following
establishments, that is to say—
(i)
any hospital, nursing home or
convalescent home or similar
establishment providing
accommodation for the sick, infirm
or mentally defective;
(ii) any institution or home where
living accommodation is provided
for the aged or indigent;
(iii) any university, college,
school or similar establishment;
and who are engaged on any of the
following work, that is to say—
(a) the preparation of food or
drink;
(b) the service of food or drink;
(c) work incidental to such
preparation or service.
EXCEPTIONS
3. The foregoing paragraphs of
this Schedule shall not apply to
any of the following workers in
respect of their employment in any
of the following circumstances,
that is to say,—
(a) workers who are employed by
the same employer partly in a
catering undertaking and partly in
some other undertaking, if their
employment is confined to work
specified either in sub-paragraph
(f) or sub-paragraph (g) of
paragraph 1 of this Schedule or
partly to work specified in the
said sub-paragraph(f) and partly
to work specified in sub-paragraph
(g), and they are mainly employed
on work in or in connection with
that other undertaking;
(b) workers who are employed by
the Crown.
Made at Accra this 5th day of
August, 1958.
AKO ADJEI
Minister of Labour and
Co-operatives.
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