Physician Assistants at the University of Cape Coast will lay down their tools today [Monday] over discrepancies in the payment of their salaries.
The Assistants say government has failed to migrate them onto the Single Spine Salary Structure hence their decision.
[contextly_sidebar id=”FRtcUAHielNIe4ldCuMoPAkmuJVzUG7w”]The Single Spine pay policy places Ghanaian public service employees on a single vertical salary structure.
Justifying their decision , the Leader of the Assistants at the University , Emmanuel Adjei Henaku, said efforts to migrate them onto the pay structure with the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission, the Vice Chancellors of Ghana and the National Labour Commission have proven futile:
“The University of Cape Coast started implementing the single spine structure about 6 years ago but they left us out. Some of us were medical assistants initially so they were comfortable putting us on the medical assistant rate and after a year of that, we thought it was just administrative oversight so we wrote to them around March or April thereabouts and since that day it has been letters upon letters, meetings with them and up till now we haven’t achieved anything,” he said.
He said the Physicians will not begin work until they receive an official notice that they are to be placed onto the system.
“We want to see the green light that they are ready to accept out Physician Assistant title as out professional title and to pay us according to the Single Spine Pay Rule, before we start work,”he stated.
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By: Kwabena Agyare/citifmonline.com/Ghana