{"id":275347,"date":"2011-02-02T14:11:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T14:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=50596"},"modified":"2011-02-02T14:11:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T14:11:27","slug":"cja-kicks-against-mps-salary-rise-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/02\/cja-kicks-against-mps-salary-rise-proposals\/","title":{"rendered":"CJA Kicks Against MPs Salary Rise Proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-32811\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2010\/11\/12\/scramble-for-hajj-cash\/cash\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32811\" title=\"cash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/cash.jpg\" alt=\"cash\" width=\"230\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a>The Committee for Joint Action (CJA) on Wednesday condemned any attempt to award Members of Parliament (MPs) salary increases of more than 150 per cent saying the reasons for the demand were unjustified.<br \/>\n\u201cThe CJA therefore proposes that the levels of any increase in the salaries of MPs must be set in line with levels in increase (in salaries) in the civil and public service,\u201d the pressure group said. It also proposed to the President\u2019s Committee on Emoluments to propose a contributory pension scheme for MPs to which they, like all working people, can contribute a percentage of their salaries.<br \/>\nThe CJA\u2019s argument was contained in a press statement signed by Mr Duke Tagoe. It said the CJA\u2019s attention was drawn to information that a \u201cReview Committee\u201d of parliament was about to submit a proposal for a salary increase for MPs to the President\u2019s Committee on Emoluments for an increase from the current GH\u00a23,000 per month to GH\u00a28,000. \u201cWe find it unacceptable that MPs should seek to equate their salaries with heads of corporations. The job of an MP does not require any qualifications, performance standards and compulsory hours of work; neither are they required to face the same high risks that the heads of industries and corporations face if they make the wrong decisions.\u201d<br \/>\nThe statement said only last October MPs were awarded a salary increase of 17 per cent.<br \/>\nTherefore, it would be unfair for the government to adhere to the MPs demands at a time when public sector workers are being asked to tighten their belts and exercise restraint in their pay demands.<br \/>\nThe statement said it was morally wrong for the rest of the country to subsidise the personal promises that aspiring MPs made to their constituents during electioneering campaigns. \u201cThe CJA would like to think that when politicians strive to enter public service, they do so out of a commitment to work to meet the economic and social aspirations of their people, rather than anything that suggests an intention to feather their own nests,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Committee for Joint Action (CJA) on Wednesday condemned any attempt to award Members of Parliament (MPs) salary increases of more than 150 per cent saying the reasons for the demand were unjustified. \u201cThe CJA therefore proposes that the levels of any increase in the salaries of MPs must be set in line with levels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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