{"id":246295,"date":"2015-01-25T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/we-are-educated-but-not-skilled-ghana-employers-association\/"},"modified":"2015-01-25T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T14:27:00","slug":"we-are-educated-but-not-skilled-ghana-employers-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/01\/25\/we-are-educated-but-not-skilled-ghana-employers-association\/","title":{"rendered":"We are educated but not skilled – Ghana Employers Association"},"content":{"rendered":"

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General News of Sunday, 25 January 2015<\/p>\n

Source: <\/strong>myjoyonline.com<\/p>\n

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Ghana Employers Association (GEA) has suggested that productivity levels in the public service can be improved if employees change their attitude towards work and sharpen their skills.<\/p>\n

Chief Executive of the GEA Alex Frimpong noted that although there is an explosion of educated people and opportunities in the country, employable skills are still \u201cscarce.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was making a contribution during a tripartite meeting between the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Organised Labour and Government represented by Employment and Labour Relations Minister, Haruna Iddrisu.<\/p>\n

Government and organised labour will in April this year agree on a daily minimum wage before the presentation of the annual budget.<\/p>\n

A forum to actualize the agreement and also deliberate on productivity for equal salary among public sector workers has already been fixed for April this year.<\/p>\n

Alex Frimpong was particularly concerned about the level of productivity in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been playing the ostrich. We should be seen as a country that is more productive. There is a saying that education is available but skills are scarce.”<\/p>\n

He called for the establishment to a definite benchmark to measure the productive levels of public servants.<\/p>\n

Concerns about the level of productivity have also been expressed by President John Dramani Mahama.<\/p>\n

Delivering the State of the Nation Address in Parliament last year, the President said about 60.9percent of the entire national revenue was used to pay public sector salaries last year.<\/p>\n

This, he said was almost double the globally acceptable prudent level of between 13 to 35 percent.<\/p>\n

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