Teachers appeal to government to pay allowances

Sunyani, April 29, GNA - Members of the Ashanti and Brong-Ahafo Regional councils of the Ghana National Association of Teachers have appealed to the government to implement the collective registration agreement signed by the two sides on December 31 last year regarding the payment of some allowances to them.

They said they neither wanted any disruption of the academic calendar nor any disturbances of the national agenda of development.

Mr. Johnson Addae-Poku, Vice Chairman of the councils who read a statement at a press conference in Sunyani, said the council members were convinced that the failure of the government to implement the registration agreement would lead to the adoption of a decision that would mar the peaceful atmosphere of the country.

The negotiation agreement was signed between the standing joint negotiating committee of the Ghana Education Service (GES) representing GNAT/National Association of Graduate Teachers to the effect that the professional allowance for all certificate teachers constituting 15 percent of their worthily gross salary, would be paid to deserving teachers with effect from January to April this year.

Mr. Addae-Poku said the two sides also agreed that a 20 percent allowances be paid to teachers in deprived areas, as well as a 10 percent allowance on gross worthily salary be paid to trained and teaching mathematics, Information Communication Technology (ICT) as well as Technical and Vocational and Science.

He said it would be difficult if not impossible neither for the executives to restrain the teachers for taking any action to get what is due to them on the expiry of the date set for the payment of the allowances.

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