Ghana- 1st- Finance and banking sector

CHAPTER: 3 BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS

3.1 Ghana’s Obligation to Protect Human Rights under Regulatory Regimes

3.2.6 Financial and Banking Sector

Ghana’s financial and banking sectors are key components of its large services sector. The human rights infractions faced by these sectors include:

• Prevention of workers from joining labour unions;
• Weak monitoring roles of the sector by the regulator (Bank of Ghana) leading to consumer rights abuses;
• Exploitation of hired contract staff from agencies as a means to gain cheap labour;
• Use of temporary staff on a permanent basis as a cost saving measure;
• Inadequate provision of infrastructure for PWDs who access banking services; and
• Sexual harassment.