COLA isn't important for authoritative concurrence with work - National Labor Commission
Source: Raphael Ghartey
8 July 2022 8:25pm
Chief Secretary of NLC, Ofosu-Asamoah
The Executive Secretary of the National Labor Commission, Ofosu Asamoah has said that the interest by the educator associations for Cost Living Allowance (COLA) is an allure for the public authority.
Talking on Top Story, Friday, he noticed that COLA was not piece of the authoritative arrangement between the instructors and government.
As indicated by him, the instructors should hence not extortion their bosses with a strike activity.
"It is an allure. You will proceed to allure and afterward you compromise that in the event that you don't tune in, I will lay my devices down. Rather than them to make themselves as though they were financial specialists… I generally say when we discuss government, not a machine has come from some place to plunk down. You and I have the open door either to be named or casted a ballot into ability to oversee others, that is government," he said.
Mr. Ofosu Asamoah moaned about the way that all instructors are protesting for a recompense they are engaging for.
"Educators request 20% and before we could express jack north of 200,000 understudies have been left in schools and more than 65,000 educators are sitting home when authority of only 12 are arranging. Assuming the 12 are arranging, mightn't the rest at any point return to instruct? Will all the 65,000 need to remain at home before government tunes in?" he inquired.
Responding to the remark by Ofosu Asamoah, National Chairperson of the Public Workers' Union, Ken Koduah said "these are a portion of the remarks that are not interesting to laborers and rather irritate their interests."
In the interim, staff of around 69 public area establishments have chosen to put to cast a ballot a movement on the decision about whether to set out their devices because of the circumstance.
Distressed administration council leaders of these elements joined in Accra to decide their next line of activity as the public authority participated in latest possible moment converses with the Labor Commission to guarantee that the specialists' interests are tended to.
The Union of Public Services Workers' Union of TUC (PSWU), with a sum of north of 27,000 laborers, are ready to fight over the public authority's hesitance to regard their require a Cost of Living Allowance (COLA).
The unsettled laborers contain individuals from organizations, for example, Bui Power Authority, Ghana Airports Company Limited, Ghana Meteorological Agency, Public Utilities Regulatory Commission and a large group of others.
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