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Government ought to relook at checking on unfortunate wages of laborers - GNAT's General Secretary
The General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers, (GNAT), Thomas Musah, has communicated worry about the low wages Ghanaian laborers get in the country.
As indicated by him, the overall pay of laborers influences the quantum of annuity benefits they are given, which should be taken a gander at right away.
That's what he said, with the right pay, laborers going on annuity ought to basically have the option to bear the cost of a two-room house.
Talking at the GNAT Investment Forum held at the University of Ghana on Wednesday, June 29, he said, "It has become extremely essential that the issues of pay in this nation ought to be checked out. We can't take off from it with the issue of the essential compensation.
"For that reason we are arranging this discussion to see, how can be guaranteed that when laborers are resigning, they go better. There is one thing that we have been asking throughout the long term, at any rate, if for no good reason by any means, when the laborer is resigning, he ought to have the option to manage the cost of a two-room house," He said
Talking at a similar occasion, the Director-General of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Dr John Ofori-Tenkorang said the plan is all that benefits conspire laborers can go anyplace.
He made sense of that the administration of SSNIT has been completing indexation to meet the increasing pace of expansion which is one reason the plan is best for laborers.
"SSNIT attempts indexation consistently and the indexation matches expansion. SSNIT knows about that thus we make up for expansion.
"I will ask individuals not to toss the child out with the terrible water. The story is that SSNIT isn't great, individuals plotted with their managers not to pay their SSNIT, the SSNIT conspire is all that you can at any point go anyplace else, taking everything into account, in the event that you don't join to contribute you are hurting yourself," he said
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