Parliament’s Select Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs is appealing to striking state attorneys to return to work while their concerns are being addressed.<\/p>\n
The Committee met leadership of the attorneys, the Attorney General, Deputy Minister of Finance, Solicitor General and Chief Director yesterday over the strike that entered day five today.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”GbTWk7pfFkZt5UET1yoJ3ZGXLzidUoV5″]The workers, among others are demanding improved working conditions.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Citi News<\/strong> however, President of the Association of State Attorneys, Francisca Tete-Mensah said they will only call off the strike when their demands are met.<\/p>\n She said Parliament Select Committee \u201conly said that we should bring a report on our problem and they will see how they will discuss it in Parliament, and we left the place disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat is confusing us now is that we had already arrived at a conclusion with the Chief of Staff and the\u00a0Finance Ministry. They had agreed that they will harmonize us and they were going to draft everything and look at the scheme of service. Now parliament has come in and so we asked them, which one are we taking? All that they said was that we should come back and that the republic is losing income and other things, while we are still on strike. What we are saying is that we don\u2019t have a problem, the ball is on their court.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile Parliamentary Select Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs is expected to meet the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission and other stakeholders to deliberate further on the state attorneys concerns.<\/p>\n