Fair Wages Commission urged to evaluate jobs of civil servants

The Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG) has called on the Fair Wages Commission (FWC) to ensure job evaluation of all its members before the implementation of the Single Spine Pay Policy (SSPP) in July.

This is the only way to ensure equal work with equal pay with the same qualification which is being implemented under the SSPP.

The Vice-President of the CLOGSAG, Mr Tennyson Foli, said this at a day’s forum at Mpraeso for members of the association drawn from the Kwahu West Municipality, Kwahu East and Kwahu South District assemblies.

He said the association would pull out from the SSPP if their concern of disparities in the salary structure was not corrected.

Mr Foli said only 26 out of the 43,000 members of the association had been placed on higher level grade after the job evaluation of members of the association.

Mr Isaac Bampo Addo, a member of the Civil Service Council, said while a Police Corporal was placed on grade 16, a University Graduate who joined the Civil Service will be placed on grade 12.

He said while vehicle maintenance allowance for civil servants was GH¢40 a month those in the public service and other institutions were being given GH¢200 a month.

Mr Addo therefore called for equal allowance and vehicle maintenance allowance to be paid to all public sector workers from the Consolidated Fund.

In a welcoming address read on her behalf, the Kwahu South Chairperson of the association, Mrs Mary Addy, commended the national executives of the association for coming to explain issues to them.

She said the 1992 Constitution stipulated that there should be equal pay with equal work and expressed the hope that the forum had removed all misunderstanding and misleading information associated with the SSPP in the interest of industrial peace and development.

Source: GNA