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60% base pay demand responsible for proposed employment freeze – Labour Ministry

60% base pay demand responsible for proposed employment freeze – Labour Ministry

The government has attributed its proposed freeze on public sector employment to the demand for a 60 percent increase in salaries by organized labour.

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The government as part of its expenditure rationalization measures in the 2023 budget announced a freeze on civil and public sector hirings from next year.

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Debating the 2023 Budget on the Floor of Parliament, the Deputy Minister of Employment and Labor Relations and Member of Parliament for Heman Lower Denkyira, Bright Wireko-Brobby said the move seeks to enable the private sector to thrive.

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He said the freeze will enable the private sector to absorb the numbers that the government is unable to recruit and also provide diversification in the various sectors of the economy.

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The total tax revenue will also be around GH¢112 billion and out of this, GH¢44.9 billion is going to be used to pay public sector workers.

He further revealed that the New Patriotic Party government came in at a time when there was a backlog of graduate teachers and nurses that it recruited, putting pressure on the wage bill.

The backlog that was there, including the nurses and teachers, we came in and employed all of them, and that further kept a strain on our wage bill.”

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