Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin has described the 10% increase in base pay for the public sector as unacceptable.
The Tripartite Committee concluded negotiations yesterday, signing an agreement for the 2025 salary increment.
However, speaking in Parliament, Mr Afenyo-Markin criticised the percentage as inadequate, insisting that the previous Akufo-Addo administration did a far better job in handling salary adjustments. "In 2017, public sector workers enjoyed 12 and a half percent increment; 2018, 11%; 2020, 15%; 2021, there was a 4% plus interim premium of 15%; 2022 there was 15% COLA on base salary; 2023 30%; 2024 23% between January and June; and then July to December was 25%.
We have just our head heard a paltry increment of 10%," he said on February 21. "We have just heard a paltry increase of 10%.
