{"id":140533,"date":"2015-08-04T12:13:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T12:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=140533"},"modified":"2015-08-04T12:27:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T12:27:18","slug":"state-attorneys-call-off-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=140533","title":{"rendered":"State Attorneys call off strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lawyers who work for the state have called off their <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/07\/07\/state-lawyers-declare-nationwide-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\">four week-long strike<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The state attorneys say they called\u00a0off the strike to enable them go through the arbitration process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was announced at a press conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;OPKQGKpWEgl6XKp1nYUF78jOQWpmc3ND&#8221;]According to them, the labour laws does not allow labour or a union to go on strike while the\u00a0arbitration process is still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The state attorneys declared a strike on July 7,\u00a0to push their demands for improved working conditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They are demanding salary increment and a harmonization of their salaries and benefits to that of circuit court judges as stated in the Legal Services Act 1993.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They also complain of lack of logistics which hinders their work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to them, various stakeholder discussions failed to yield any positive results, hence the decision to strike.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Government later dragged the striking attorneys to the National Labour Commission (NLC).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Franklin Badu Jnr\/citifmonlie.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers who work for the state have called off their four week-long strike. The state attorneys say they called\u00a0off the strike to enable them go through the arbitration process. This was announced at a press conference on Tuesday. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;OPKQGKpWEgl6XKp1nYUF78jOQWpmc3ND&#8221;]According to them, the labour laws does not allow labour or a union to go on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":133343,"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],"class_list":["post-140533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140533","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=140533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}