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The National Executive Council of the Ghana Association of Senior Personnel-Universities has described the government’s unilateral decision not to increase the wages and salaries of public sector workers until 2024 as not only “shocking and disturbing” but as “disappointing, frustrating. and traumatizing “.
According to the council, wages and salaries are determined by a tripartite committee and not solely by the government.
The council, in a statement, wondered if the government cannot increase the wages of public sector workers due to the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy, could the government not have involved the national leaders of the unions in stakeholder consultative meetings to prepare their plans? minds for any salary adjustment?
The council pointed out that tertiary education plays a fundamental role in the socioeconomic development of the country and contributes immensely to sustaining these achievements and, therefore, it is shocking and demotivating that instead of the government consolidating them and motivating them to continue improving and expanding its borders, has “chosen to inject into our body system a high dose of agony and worsening economic conditions destined to slow down or even kill the speed” of its members with its unilateral position of not increasing wages and salaries until 2024.
The statement further said that its members cannot tighten their belts as the government has asked them to do for the following reasons:
1. Our terms of service, which are supposed to be reviewed every two years, have been in arrears since 2008.
2. We were ignored and discriminated against in the determination and award of the market premium and the non-basic allocation.
3. The Directive of the National Labor Commission of January 28, 2021 contained in the reference number: NLC / G-572/019/2021, which establishes that the parties must return to the negotiating table to negotiate in good faith on the non-basic allowance and when the settlement of the level 2 pension arrears.
4. That the parties have three months to participate in the negotiations and inform the commission.
5. That the government should do everything possible to pay the outstanding pensions that are pending by the end of March 2021.
We strongly suspect three things that either government intends to
1. Remove the NLC directives
2. Stop the current negotiation of our conditions of service that is in progress or
3. Request an extension of time.
The council noted that no one should blame them for any action they may take in the short term.
