{"id":360684,"date":"2017-10-10T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=360684"},"modified":"2017-10-10T14:00:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:00:39","slug":"youth-employment-agency-to-audit-beneficiaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/youth-employment-agency-to-audit-beneficiaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Employment Agency to audit beneficiaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Youth Employment Agency (YEA), has ordered a\u00a0comprehensive audit of all beneficiaries on its modules in line with a restructuring process.<\/p>\n<p>The Agency will also undertake the verification of the number of beneficiaries under the sanitation module, according\u00a0to a memo sighted by <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, in\u00a0following\u00a0a management meeting in September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;okpr32DACLmsHDB41MeL9VJ5nrVVHv8O&#8221;]As part of this, Zoomlion Ghana Limited is to furnish the YEA with the database of 45,000 beneficiaries.<\/p>\n<p>Management has also resolved to take steps to pay allowances due staff from June to September 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Suspended allowances<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The allowances of Board Members, the CEO, Deputy CEOs and certain staff have also been suspended temporarily for review.<\/p>\n<p>The YEA Management has also been directed to take steps to pay allowances due staff from June, 2017 to September, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>A group calling itself the Coalition of Youth Employment Agency beneficiaries\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/19\/yea-beneficiaries-to-demonstrate-over-unpaid-allowances\/\">threatened to demonstrate<\/a><\/strong><\/span> over the matter in July.<\/p>\n<p>The YEA management in April <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/04\/20\/yea-suspends-allowances-over-fraudulent-payments\/\">suspended payment<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of allowances to over\u00a060,000 beneficiaries, after it had detected supposed fraudulent activities, including allowances to thousands of people who do not work for the agency.<\/p>\n<p>The YEA was established under the Youth Employment Act 2015 (Act 887) to empower the country&#8217;s youth between the ages of 15 to 35 years,\u00a0 through skills training and internship modules to transit from a situation of unemployment to that of employment.<\/p>\n<p>As at December 2012, over 600,000\u00a0beneficiaries had been recruited by the YEA, which has 10 modules.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Find below the full\u00a0memo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Management wishes to bring to the attention of all staff that, at the Agency&#8217;s Board Meeting held on 22nd\u00a0September, 2017, the following resolutions\/decisions were made, and all staff are to take note and comply accordingly:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The provisions in the Conditions of Service pertaining to the payment of allowances to the Board Members, CEO, Deputy CEOs and all staff in the category of levels 8 &#8211; 13 have been suspended temporarily for review.<\/li>\n<li>That in view of the financial constraints, Management is directed to take steps to pay allowances due staff from June, 2017 to September, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>That all appointments made by Management are ratified.<\/li>\n<li>That all officers in acting positions for more than one (1) year are with immediate effect revoked.<\/li>\n<li>That Management is directed to conduct an HR Audit of the Human Resources of the Agency.<\/li>\n<li>That Management conducts a head count of all Beneficiaries on all modules.<\/li>\n<li>That Management undertakes a comprehensive verification of the number of Beneficiaries under the sanitation module.<\/li>\n<li>That the restructuring exercise initiated by Management is ratified, and Management should ensure that all due processes are followed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Youth Employment Agency (YEA), has ordered a\u00a0comprehensive audit of all beneficiaries on its modules in line with a restructuring process. 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