However, workers who appoint in actionable strikes accept a amount to pay, including forfeiting their bacon for the month(s) they abort to work.
GhanaWeb examines instances area accessible area workers in Ghana accept had to cost their salaries while on an actionable strike.
Currently, the Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG), accept been on strike.
While the government and the Ghana Labour Commission (NLC) accept declared the activity as illegal, CETAG associates accept not not paid their salaries for July 2024.
On July 22, the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) instructed the Controller and Accountant General's Department to append the salaries of all arresting CETAG members, except for the principals of colleges, for July 2024.
CETAG associates laid bottomward their accoutrement weeks ago, ambitious bigger alive altitude and the administration of a National Labour Commission (NLC) ruling.
In 2015, some accessible area agents who went on bang and bootless to resume assignment were additionally not paid their salaries.
While doctors and pharmacists were on bang ambitious bigger altitude of service, associates of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) accepted the acquittal of their book and analysis allowances.
A account issued by the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations adumbrated that it was declared in the Labour Law that workers on an actionable bang accident forfeiting their salaries during the bang period.
"Government wishes to admonish all accessible area workers of the accoutrement of the Labor Act 2003 (Act 651), which states, amid added issues, that a artisan on bang 'may cost his/her accomplishment in account of the aeon during which he/she is affianced in the actionable strike'," the statement, issued by again area Minister, Haruna Iddrisu, said.
The government directed all active of government establishments area workers had affianced in an actionable (partial or full) bang to abridge and abide to their corresponding ministers of state, the account of workers who had been absent from assignment due to a bang or protest.
The aggregate lists were to be submitted to the Ministry of Finance by Friday, August 14, 2015, for all-important action.
The account appealed to arresting workers to end their bang and acknowledgment to assignment while negotiating in acceptable faith.
But the General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association at the time, Dr. Frank Serebuor, said the accumulation would not end the bang until their demands were met.
"As for the salaries, we the doctors accept declared actual acutely we are not abashed of non-payment of salaries and we can alike go for a year after them, and so cipher should anticipate that we are afraid, we are adamant on that matter," he beforehand told Accra-based Citi FM.
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