Ghana Toll Workers Group Demands Payment Of Their Salary Arrears
Upset previous laborers of the Ghana Toll Workers Group have requested that the Government pay their compensation for unpaid debts so they can take care of their families.
The laborers said they had been battling to take care of their families for the beyond five months after the employment cutback and engaged the Government to pay them.
The furious specialists, numbering more than a hundred, attacked the Ministry of Roads and Highways and requested the installment of their compensation back payments in January.
They additionally requested letters from the Roads and Highways Minister, Kwasi Amoako Atta, on their reassignment after the Minister had required a finish to the assortment of the costs, powerful November 18.
Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta, Finance Minister, in introducing the 2022 spending plan explanation on November 17, 2021, said the Government had seen that tollgates were causing more damage than great, causing weighty traffic and adversely influencing efficiency.
"To address these difficulties, the Government has annulled all costs on open streets and extensions. This produces results following the financial plan is supported," the Finance Minister said.
The financial plan articulation likewise guaranteed the specialists that the Government would keep on paying the laborers' pay rates until elective business open doors were found for them.
However the Government had paid for the November and December 2021 pay rates, those for 2022 are financially past due.
Mr. Emmanuel Ampadu, a part and an individual living with inability, in a meeting with the Ghana News Agency, said,
"we are ravenous, we can't take care of our families and we are being shot out from our homes basically because we can't pay the lease."
He said his family attempted to have a complete dinner daily.
Mr. Eric Kojo Sam, a part and a dad of three said: "I have been tossed out of the room that I leased because I don't have the cash to pay. My youngsters are at home since I can't get cash for them to go to class."
Lady Jennifer Atik, additionally an individual from the Group, advised the Agency her powerlessness to help her family was influencing her marriage and kids and approached the Government to pay the unfulfilled obligations so she could begin some exchange and cater to her loved ones.
Mr. Edward Duncan, Secretary of the Ghana Toll Workers Group, said after meeting with the Minister, Kwasi Amoako Atta, nothing concrete was achieved in regards to their requests.
In an end letter endorsed on May 9, 2022, by one Samuel Eshun, Operations Manager, Tolls and Routes Management Limited (TRML), the worker for hire that regulated assortment of the costs, had said, "since endeavors to get your compensations paid or secure elective open positions have not yielded any certain outcomes today, we have no other decision than to advise you for a month, successful today."
Mr. Isaac Adjei Kwakye, Deputy Public Relations Officer, Ministry of Roads and Highways, said, Government, however in conversations to reassign the impacted laborers, and pay their exceptional pay rates, lawfully, had no agreement with the specialists.
"In any case, be it as it might, not the Ministry will pay them. It is the Company, and no one was given an end letter," he said.
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