The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has raised concerns over President John Mahama’s “Reset Ghana” agenda, arguing it will remain unattainable unless the government urgently addresses the issue of poor wages in the public sector.
At a pre-May Day forum in Accra, themed “Resetting Pay and Working Conditions in Ghana: The Role of Stakeholders,” Dr. Kwabena Nyarko Otoo, Director of Labour Research at the TUC, stated that Ghanaian workers are overworked and underpaid. He stressed that meaningful national transformation cannot happen when workers cannot afford basic necessities.
“Some top-level civil servants still earn below $1,000 a month,” Dr. Otoo noted. “You cannot ‘reset’ a country on hungry stomachs.”
George Smith-Graham, CEO of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission, acknowledged that the Single Spine Pay Policy was not matched by needed reforms in the public sector. He called for a renewed effort to align pay with productivity.
President Mahama, in response, has pledged to establish an Independent Emoluments Commission to ensure fairness, transparency, and equity in public sector wages.
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