{"id":211504,"date":"2016-05-04T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=211504"},"modified":"2016-05-04T16:00:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T16:00:53","slug":"teachers-reject-payment-of-salaries-via-e-zwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/05\/teachers-reject-payment-of-salaries-via-e-zwich\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers ‘reject’ payment of salaries via\u00a0E-zwich"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Coalition of Concerned Teacher (CCT), has warned of labour unrest if the Controller and Accountant General’s Department goes ahead to approve the use of the E-zwich \u00a0platform to pay teachers.<\/p>\n
According to CCT, the E-zwich payment system is fraught with technical challenges which make it difficult for teachers already on it to access their salaries.<\/p>\n
Early this year, government urged teachers to subscribe to the system or forfeit their salaries.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”doRTulc90NbxqecM2mPcHLvRCm0CpEIx”]The Acting President of CCT, King Ali Awudu, wants government to immediately suspend the process else they will protest.<\/p>\n
According to him, government had assured that it would educate teachers on the use\u00a0of the cards after which \u201ca piloting for one of the regions was done.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, that education was not done, the team went into hibernation. We woke up one day and saw a press release from the Controller that by 31st<\/sup> of May, anybody within Greater Accra Region for example who has not hocked on to the E-zwich will not be paid.\u201d<\/p>\n He insisted that \u201cwe cannot accept this. We dare them to implement this.\u201d<\/p>\n King Ali Awudu \u00a0said \u201corganized labour has already written a letter to the Controller telling her that if they dare implement this thing, the dire consequences at the labour front will become unbearable.\u201d<\/p>\n