Assistant Labour Minister for Regional Labour Affairs Daybah Johnson is calling on filing clerks at the ministry not to allow people to use them or their position to get at their bosses in carrying out their job.
She warned them to desist from acts that will bring disgrace and shame to their bosses as filers of communications in government ministries and other institutions.
Assistant Minister Johnson noted that filing clerks are very importance in all organizations, as they play a leading role in ensuring that the institution is peaceful.
Assistant Minister Johnson, addressing the official opening session of a one-day training workshop for filling clerks at the ministry is quoted by a release as describing them as not people who talk too much, it is a position of confidentiality and must be willing to be secretive.
“As filing clerks, you can live longer if you keep your mouth. You can be targeted from what you see, filed and speak out,” she guided.
She said the workshop is important because it helps the participants in carrying out their work even when they are out of the Ministry of Labor.
The workshop was organized by the Division of Library and Documentation of the on Wednesday, November 20, 2024.
She cautioned the participants to unitize the knowledge learned from the training and not see it as a waste.
“I was once a filing clerk and my bosses at the time used to tell me, you are the one that know about what we are going through here, so if anything happens here, we will hold you responsible. As a filing clerk of the Ministry of Labor, you are the ones who are going to hold this Ministry, if anything goes wrong here, you will be held responsible,” she reiterated.
She added that if Ministry of Labor will become a better place for filing and documentation, it will depend on how filing clerks carry out their job and promised that this training will not be the last at the Ministry noting that one day is not enough.
Earlier, the Director of Library and Documentation of the Ministry of Labor, Grace Martin Nyanway stated that the Division serves as a dedicated space for employees to expand their knowledge and skills by offering a diverse collection of books, magazine and other resources related materials such as those from case being heard at the Ministry’s hearing officers.
“It provides access to students and researchers to seek for important documents from the Ministry of Labor especially in cases of labor disputes by the Division of Labor Standards and other divisions,” she emphasized.
Director Nyanway named the key objectives of the training as building capacity in filing documents by using different techniques; integrating and applying knowledge gained from the training in the workshop, filing and documentation and developing a model of training related to filing and documentation which can be further perpetuated as expected outcomes of the workshop.
Labor Minister Cooper Kruah thanked the organizers of the workshop and urged participants to make use of the contents in enhancing efficiency and productivity in the ministry.
