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Union to submit minimum wage proposal by 31 July

    NAIROBI
    Ghana’s Trade Union Congress has agreed to submit its minimum wage plan to the Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare by the end of July, a news source in Accra told IRIN on Wednesday. This undertaking follows a meeting on Monday between both sides. However, the agreement failed to block a three-hour nationwide demonstration by workers against the government’s failure to offer “an acceptable” minimum wage, the source said. The current minimum wage is 3,505 cedis (54 US cents) a day but the rapidly falling value of the currency has worsened economic conditions.

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