{"id":246504,"date":"2016-09-07T16:11:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=246504"},"modified":"2016-09-07T16:11:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:11:47","slug":"we-are-yet-to-receive-nlc-suit-govt-pharmacists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=246504","title":{"rendered":"We are yet to receive NLC suit – Gov’t Pharmacists"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Government and Hospitals Pharmacists Association (GHOSPA) has said it is unaware of any suit from the National Labour Commission (NLC) praying it to call off its strike, according to the GHOSPA General Secretary, Emmanuel Owusu Owiafe.<\/p>\n

This is despite the NLC confirming to Citi News<\/strong> it had filed a suit at the Labour Division of the High Court, seeking to compel striking members of the Government and Hospitals Pharmacists Association (GHOSPA), to call off their strike<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”Lj2IYieqUkbf3u3Y1ImxOJlAFSwj4MQh”]\u201cGHOSPA has not received the suit yet. We also heard it on air and as at now that I am speaking, we have not received a suit,\u201d Mr. Owiafe said in a Citi News interview.<\/p>\n

Mr. Owiafe said his association would \u201cstudy it appropriately and then we will let our legal team respond to it appropriately,\u201d when it receives the suit.<\/p>\n

He also pointed out that there was no illegality in GHOSPA\u2019s protest noting that “we did serve notice to the National Labor Commission. From our end, we don\u2019t think any illegal process was initiated.”<\/p>\n

Mr. Owiafe retorted that the NLC would have done well to instead initiate legal processes\u00a0“to ensure that the Fair wages and Salaries Commission obey its own rulings.”<\/p>\n

Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

GHOSPA started\u00a0an\u00a0indefinite strike<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0on Monday to push for changes to their market premiums.<\/p>\n

The association said it was forced to resort to a strike over the breakdown of negotiations with government, spanning six years, over its grade structure and placement in public health facilities.<\/p>\n

The pharmacists have lamented discrepancies in its interim market premiums claiming that the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission, has placed pharmacists working in university hospitals on a premium of 1.14, whilst the pharmacists working in the Ghana Health Service are on a premium of 0.58.<\/p>\n

Thought the\u00a0NLC has not described this strike as illegal, it has said GHOSPA\u2019s actions are not in the interest of potential patrons hence its decision to resort to the law courts.<\/p>\n

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Government and Hospitals Pharmacists Association (GHOSPA) has said it is unaware of any suit from the National Labour Commission (NLC) praying it to call off its strike, according to the GHOSPA General Secretary, Emmanuel Owusu Owiafe. This is despite the NLC confirming to Citi News it had filed a suit at the Labour Division […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":229847,"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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246504","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/229847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}