GNAT wants govt to pay SSSS arrears promptly

Kumasi, Aug. 14, GNA – The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has asked the government to show good faith and expedite action on the payment of arrears for the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS) at the end of September as promised.

This, according to the association, would help avert unnecessary tension and agitation at the labour front.

A communiqué signed by Mr Samuel Alobuia, Acting National President of GNAT and issued at end of this year's National Executive Council meeting, in Kumasi on Friday, also urged the government to urgently announce the payment schedule stating, specifically, in how many tranches the money would be paid.

The communiqué described the 'Politics of Insults' which have characterized the political atmosphere and the Ghanaian media as 'a recipe for disaster' and advised political parties to entreat their operatives to be civil in their utterances in order to maintain the peace the nation is enjoying.

According to the communiqué, the Executive Council had upheld and duly ratified the expulsion of 31 members of the Association in accordance with the provisions of GNAT Constitution.

It called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) Council to withdraw the promotion letters of the various ranks taking effect from May 2011 and issue with new ones to take effect from September 2011 to conform to the provisions in the Collective Agreement for GES personnel.

It further asked the GES to as a matter of urgency develop a programme to build the capacities of officers working at the various IPPD (payroll) sections of the metropolitan, municipal and district directorates in order to reduce the problems encountered by teachers at these offices.

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