The Secretary-General of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Dr. Yaw Baah, has required the suspension of assessments on fuel until costs are settled.
He said the excessive costs of fuel, with an adverse consequence on food and product costs, were affecting laborers' wages seriously and influencing their way of life.
"We, thusly, approach Government to suspend all expenses and all duties on petroleum and diesel and LPG simultaneously until the global cost of raw petroleum and the worth of the Cedi has balanced out. This will cut down costs of fuel items and facilitate the weight on Ghanaians."
He spoke to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Sunday at the May Day march held at the Black Star Square in Accra to intercede and further develop the normal Ghanaian laborer's buying power.
Dr. Baah approached Government to, as an issue of criticalness, audit the single spine pay strategy and pay laborers living pay.
"Right now, the lowest pay permitted by law workers in Ghana are as of now getting 13 cedis 53 pesewas for an entire day's worth of effort or 365 cedis for an entire month's work. This is underneath the 1.9-dollar global neediness line at the ongoing conversion scale… pay rates have lost over 33% of their genuine worth as costs of fundamental items, including food and fuel keep on expanding on a consistent schedule.''
He deplored the "poor organizing" of the compensation of Public Sector workers, which he said additionally impacted annuities especially, those not caught under the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT).
President Akufo-Addo, framed measures by the Government to assist the economy with recuperating from the adverse consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
The actions incorporate the presentation of the electronic exchange Levy (E-Levy), which he said was important to activate sufficient income for the public turn of events.
"Throughout the last a very long time specifically, Government has carried out a few strategies and projects, all trying to hurry financial recuperation from the assaults of Covid 19. We've acquainted measures with work on the financial combination and guarantee obligation manageability, which is basic to accomplishing miniature monetary solidness in the short to medium term. These Measures, for example, the section of the E-Levy Bill, have not been presented in disengagement, they have come on the rear of an income deficiency of 13.1 billion cedis and the expanded unbudgeted consumption of 142 billion cedis… ."
He guaranteed to cut 30% of "optional uses" of the different Ministries, Departments, and Agencies, decrease pay rates of political deputies until the end of the year and diminish fuel coupons by 50% among a large group of other grimness measures.
He excused ideas of the Government not being delicate to the situation of laborers and guaranteed persistent insurance of wages and vocations of laborers paying little mind to COVID-19.
The President vowed to assist with patching up the private area, which was experienced seriously during the pinnacle of the Covid - 19.
He promised to make capital more open and lessen the expense of carrying on with work, further develop admittance to credit, and a lot more to the area.
Addressing the issue of laborers' wages, President Akufo-Addo, said an advisory group had been set up and was assessing the single-spine compensation structure.
"Following the National Labor Conference at Kwahu, the Ministry of Employment and Labor Relations and the Tripad Partners have set up as of Tuesday, 26th April a Technical Committee to survey the Single-Spine Pay Policy and exhortation Government in like manner."
He urged all specialists to keep on noticing the Covid-19 conventions regardless of the facilitating of limitations and asked all to get an immunization.
The event was utilized to grant 59 laborers for their commitments to public turn of events.
Global Workers Day, likewise alluded to as May Day, is a festival of workers and the average workers seen by different worker's guilds and developments around the world.
It falls on a principal day in the long stretch of May consistently.
In Ghana, it is seen as a vacation with a public motorcade.
The topic during the current year's remembrance is: "Safeguarding Jobs and Incomes in the Era of Covid-19 Pandemic and Beyond."
blogpay
Total Comments: 0