{"id":10177,"date":"2014-04-01T09:33:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T09:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=10177"},"modified":"2014-04-01T10:18:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T10:18:16","slug":"review-position-on-salary-arrears-else-nagrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/04\/review-position-on-salary-arrears-else-nagrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Review position on salary arrears, else&#8230; &#8211; NAGRAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10178\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10178\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1282c0d134a2d461c9789d1c3fd39059_L.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10178\" alt=\"Mr Rene Senyo Kwami Korkor (middle) addressing the media. To his left are Mr Kwame Heva, Secretary and Ms Pearl Anyadi, Organiser\/ Publicity Secretary, and to the right is Mr Abbey Oromasis, Vice Chairman. \" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1282c0d134a2d461c9789d1c3fd39059_L.jpg\" width=\"530\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1282c0d134a2d461c9789d1c3fd39059_L.jpg 530w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1282c0d134a2d461c9789d1c3fd39059_L-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr Rene Senyo Kwami Korkor (middle) addressing the media. To his left are Mr Kwame Heva, Secretary and Ms Pearl Anyadi, Organiser\/ Publicity Secretary, and to the right is Mr Abbey Oromasis, Vice Chairman.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Graduate teachers have asked the government to review its position on salary arrears with respect to recruitment, promotion and re-activation of teachers, otherwise they will advise themselves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Addressing a press conference in Accra yesterday, the Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), Mr Rene Senyo Kwami Korkor, stated that if \u00a0the government does not review its postpone on the salary arrears of teachers up to April 30, 2014 , they will advise themselves\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe chanced upon a letter dated November 4, 2013 and signed by the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Mr Seth Terkper, directing that salary arrears with respect to recruitment, promotion and re-activation of staff should not exceed three months,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He wondered why the government should pay salary arrears for only three months and not the number of months a teacher had worked, adding, \u201cIt takes a long time for the salaries of newly recruited and re-activated teachers to be paid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Newly trained<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Korkor said another worrying aspect of the directive by the government was that newly trained teachers from the colleges of education had to survive on their allowances they took at college until their results were released.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir results also take more than a year to be released before their documents are processed and placed on the right salary scale. So I ask: Why should they be paid only three months of salary arrears?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>He said the directive by the minister \u201cis working against the Ghana Education Service (GES) staff through no fault of theirs. So we are calling for the immediate withdrawal of the letter and the arrears of all affected staff of GES paid by the end of April 2014 for peace and harmony to prevail\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pension contribution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the pension contribution of staff, Mr Korkor expressed concern over the refusal of the government to remit GES workers\u2019 pension contributions to GES trustees for proper management and administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new pension law enacted in 2008 mandates the government to remit our contributions to fund managers to invest, so that we will get better pension, come 2015 when workers are to start enjoying enhanced pension,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said, however, that since 2008, the government had been taking teachers\u2019 pension contributions but it was yet to remit GES trustees, adding, \u201cWe feel the government is toying with our pension and we are calling on it to, as a matter of urgency, remit all our pension contributions in its possession to GES trustees to manage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Incremental credits<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Korkor also touched on the non-payment of incremental credits and vehicle maintenance allowance, recalling that NAGRAT had raised the two issues and the government had promised to address them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we speak now, the incremental credits for 2011 and 2012 and vehicle maintenance allowances for 2011 and 2013 are yet to be paid,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Daily Graphic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate teachers have asked the government to review its position on salary arrears with respect to recruitment, promotion and re-activation of teachers, otherwise they will advise themselves. 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