Fair Wages Commission chases banks, govt employees over fraudulent salaries - Adomonline.com

The Chief Executive Officer of the FWSC, Benjamin Arthur, gave the warning ahead of a nationwide payroll monitoring exercise.

The FWSC on Wednesday March 22, 2023 served notice that it would embark on a nationwide payroll monitoring exercise, in collaboration with its relevant stakeholders, from Saturday, April 1, this year.

While the commission conducts the exercise on sample sizes, it intends to expand the scope to cover the entire public sector payroll system.

The April 1 exercise is geared towards sanitising the public sector payroll by identifying and expunging any existing fraud and anomalies on it. 

“To this end, the commission entreats all boards/councils and heads of public sector Institutions to conduct their own internal payroll audit and clean-up ahead of that of the commission,” the FWSC said in a statement.

If it is the agricultural sector, we want to look at it entirely; if it is manufacturing, we want to look at the public sector workers there, the payroll and the rest,” he said.

He said it was a serious exercise which had come to stay and “so we are sensitising the public to the consequences of engaging in anything criminal when it comes to payroll and allowances”.