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Pay our allowances now - Youth in afforestation workers demand

Pay our allowances now - Youth in afforestation workers demand

Some workers of the Youth in Afforestation module of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), have given the government and the Forestry Commission by the end of this month, to release their accumulated allowance else they will embark on a  strike.

The workers, who say they haven’t received payment for over three months, also cite a breach of their contracts with regard to the amounts paid beneficiaries.

“We have given them up to the end of this month to settle all those indebtedness. We understand this is a donor funded project so if funds have been released why should people work without allowances,” one of the beneficiaries said in a Citi News interview.

He said the Youth in Afforestation module is donor-funded; hence funds must be available to pay beneficiaries regularly.

“There are some who started in April, some joined in May, June and July, and as of last two weeks, no one has been issued any allowance. We heard the PRO of Forestry Commission and other officers on radio saying they have made payments. But the reality is that as last Monday they had not made any payments.”

“In the labour regulation, if you engage someone and you want to review the condition service, it is ideal to involve the person in the process. You don’t draft your own thing and go into the media and say you are slashing their allowances; those who are supervisors who were receiving GHc1,200 at the end of the month will now receive GHc700. It is so disrespectful,” he stated.

HND Holders designated as assistant supervisors are to be paid Ghc600, whereas other workers classified as non-diploma holders are to receive Ghc400.

We’ve employed 20,000 youth in afforestation programme – Nana Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in August 2018 said his government has employed some 20,000 young men and women across the country to help manage the country’s forests, combat desertification and tackle land degradation.

Speaking at the launch of the Youth in Afforestation Programme on Monday, 13th August 2018, at the Jubilee Park, Kumasi, President Akufo-Addo stated that the launch of the programme is in line with the NPP’s 2016 manifesto commitment of reforestation, forest rehabilitation and forest protection activities.

By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey/citinewsroom.com/Ghana

Source: citifmonline.com

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