By Laudia Sawer
Tema, April 25, GNA - Mr Bright Wereko-Brobbey, Deputy Minister of Employment, has implored employees to add value to themselves in order to be relevant to employers.
Mr Wereko-Brobbey, speaking at a symposium organized by the Tema District Council of Labour (TDCL), said the world of work was changing fast therefore the need for employees to add value to themselves.
“Even those of you who found yourselves in permanent jobs, don’t think that you are so safe and that you will not improve yourself on the job, some people are also developing and thinking so fast to take away your jobs by way of robotics and artificial intelligence,” he noted.
He stated that even if one had a permanent job, they must think about the next step, and what they could do to retain themselves on the job by making a conscious effort to develop themselves.
“Make yourself relevant to the employers if you think you will still sit there and everyday collect books, you mark them, one day a machine would be collecting and marking the books. Where will you be?”
Touching on the increasing trend of casualization of jobs, the Deputy Minister indicated that government was watching the issue closely and was reconciling it with the world of work and how things were changing and revolving rapidly globally.
He however said every worker must be treated equally on the job irrespective of the status of the employee stating that “for me, casual workers are even the most hardworking because he or she knows that for the next two years, I have a contract and if I don’t do well, if I don’t develop myself, if I don’t strife, the job will be taken away from me”.
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