The National Labour Commission has suspended the hearing of all cases pending before it.

This is because the two government appointees on the Commission have vacated their posts after the New Patriotic Party (NPP) lost power.

This has left over one hundred cases un-attended to.

Executive Secretary of the Commission, Mr Ofosu Asamoah, disclosed this in an interview with 3news’ labour affairs correspondent Daniel Opoku in Accra on February 13.

“Accordingly, I have written to the Minister (of Employment, Jobs and Labour Relations) and the Chief of Staff for the government to appoint two persons to join the five members who are already there, so that immediately the Commission will be properly constituted to sit,” he explained.

Mr Asamoah said, “We received an average of eighty to one hundred and twenty cases in a month, but certainly all cases before the Commission, we will try to get the parties by facilitating settlement.”

In a related development, the Director of Administration and Human Resource Management at the Commission, Dr Bernice Welbeck, expressed concern about agitations of strike in the public sector.

“In terms of industrial actions in the public sector since 2010, the strikes are all related to issues about conditions of service,” she said.

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