Sixty teachers of the St. Augustine College in Cape Coast have jointly sued the Attorney General, Ghana Education Service, the Controller and Accountant’s General Department for wrongful deduction of their basic salaries.
[contextly_sidebar id=”3SFimOrT657GREFsLhk8WafKVuZkjcZr”]This follows a directive by the Ministry of Finance to deduct 10% of civil servants salaries as rent.
The teachers say the policy is not applicable to them because according to them, they are public servants and not civil servants.
Speaking to on Eyewitness News, the lawyer for the disgruntled teachers, Atta Dadzie explained that “what they are saying is that their counterparts in other schools across the length and breadth of the country are enjoying those facilities, as part of an incentive package. So they don’t see why something that is meant for civil servants are being extended to cover them when they are entirely outside that category of workers.”
He added that, the disgruntled teachers “are asking that the policy of Ministry of Finance directed at civil servants authorizing deduction of rent from salaries of civil servants cannot and must not be applied to public servants including employees of the Ghana education service.”
In another development, 15,000 teachers did not receive their salaries for the month of June because they did not have SSNIT numbers appearing on their pay slips.
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By: Godwin A. Allotey & Akwasi Koranteng/citifmnoline.com/Ghana