Organized labour has cautioned that it not will accept any postponement of the January 2010 date for the implementation of the single spine pay policy. The government, organized labour and other public sector partners agreed in May this year to follow a road map leading to the implementation of a single spine salary structure for public sector workers.
The structure fashioned in the new policy would not only ensure decent pay for public sector workers but would also close the distortions and inequalities in wages, where workers with equal qualification and job description receive different wages and allowances depending on which sector they are employed in. The Secretary-General of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC), Mr. Kofi Asamoah, said at a stakeholders� sensitization workshop in Accra yesterday that organized labour was committed to the road map and processes leading up to the implementation of the single spine policy.
However, the expectation of organized labour is that the Government would diligently play its part and ensure that it implemented each of the processes to ensure that the January 2010 deadline for implementation would be achieved. �We will not accept any last minute complains; any outstanding issues should be given maximum attention now so that they will constitute any ground for postponing the implementation deadline,� Mr. Asamoah stressed.
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