The government of Ghana has made a 23 percent adjustment to public sector employees’ salaries.
This comes after the base wage discussions for 2024 were concluded.The 23 percent adjustment was paid starting on January 1st of this year.
This was verified to the Daily Graphic by Kwasi Kwaning-Bosompem, Controller and Accountant General.
Kwasi Kwaning-Bosompem added that the government had already approved the payment of the twenty-three percent adjustment.
Mr. Kwaning-Bosompem acknowledged government’s commitment to the wages and benefits of public sector employees, ensuring that salaries are not only paid on schedule but also in the correct amount.
“The government is very committed to upholding workers interests and has never faulted in paying salaries even when the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020,” Mr Kwaning-Bosompem said.
“In other jurisdictions, during the COVID-19 pandemic, salaries were cut and people were laid off, but in Ghana the government kept faith with workers by paying their salaries,” he added.
However, certain members of Organized Labor have attested to the government’s payment of the twenty-three percent basic salary increase.
According to General Secretary of Teachers and Education Workers Union (TEWU), Mark Dankyira Korankye his organization has not yet received any complaints of any kind over the payment from the rank and file.
“As far as our members are concerned they have received their pay based on the new 23 per cent salary adjustment,” he confirmed.
