TUC calls for review of reward system in public sector | 3NEWS

Mahamudu Bawumia in attendance, social partners agreed that Single Spine Pay Policy should be reviewed and a Tripartite Technical Committee has been constituted to review the policy and expected to present its report by the end of June 2022 so that pay increases will be factored into the 2023 National Budget.

Baah iterated that some government workers on the Single Spine Salary Policy take salaries as low as Four Hundred and Fifteen Cedis (GHS 415) per month which is woefully inadequate for any meaningful life in this difficult times.

“We now have junior staff in some public institutions especially those that are not on the Single Spine earning much higher than senior officers on the SSSS

Workers on the Single Spine Structure are receiving lower salaries compared to their counterparts on other salary structures in the public sector”

He also revealed that the highest salary on the is Seven Thousand Cedis (GHS 7000) a month but some heads of public sector institutions earn over four times of that.

The leader of Organised Labour again alluded that when public sector workers were given between 4% and 7% salary increase in 2021 and 2022, some SOEs actually awarded themselves over 25% salary increase even though their salaries were much higher than those on the Single Spine

Yaw Baah again stated that there are some heads of SOEs that earn three times more than the salary of President of Ghana even though those SOEs are making huge losses