{"id":113396,"date":"2015-05-03T12:14:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T12:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=113396"},"modified":"2015-05-03T12:14:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T12:14:49","slug":"committee-formed-to-resolve-govt-labour-pensions-impasse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=113396","title":{"rendered":"Committee to tackle gov\u2019t, labour pension\u2019s impasse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President John Dramani Mahama has established a Committee to resolve the impasse between government and labour over the <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/contextly.com\/redirect\/?id=qYPXYvCCSO:74534:2534:13::woKRAnzL0lhjjI9Gj9j5nOvQy:only_previous:5545fdee1d19d2-58077496\" target=\"_blank\">tier two pension scheme<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;DWD08aVkUar7rDLjIsnfUkQ10cP5jYFb&#8221;]The Committee is expected to secure an out of court settlement on the matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/10\/24\/well-take-disingenuous-labour-on-govt\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Government sued twelve labour unions<\/strong><\/a><\/span> some months ago after they embarked on series of demonstration to compel government to transfer their tier two pension contributions into their registered schemes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The labour unions want government to allow a private company to manage the tier two pension scheme but government thinks otherwise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at the May Day celebration on Friday, President Mahama expressed worry at the impasse between government and labour on the matter saying \u201cit has taken too long to resolve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI\u2019ve accordingly requested the Minister of Employment and Labour\u00a0 relations and the Attorney General as well as the forum to seek an amicable resolution of the issue in the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA committee comprising ex-representatives of government and organized labour is being constituted to explore out of court settlement of this dispute,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Godwin Akweiteh Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Dramani Mahama has established a Committee to resolve the impasse between government and labour over the tier two pension scheme. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;DWD08aVkUar7rDLjIsnfUkQ10cP5jYFb&#8221;]The Committee is expected to secure an out of court settlement on the matter. Government sued twelve labour unions some months ago after they embarked on series of demonstration to compel government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":113008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38,4],"class_list":["post-113396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}