{"id":1142770,"date":"2022-07-05T23:12:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T23:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/05\/deputy-minister-lambasted-for-telling-teachers-that-they-were-paid-for-no-work-done-during-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T23:12:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T23:12:49","slug":"deputy-minister-lambasted-for-telling-teachers-that-they-were-paid-for-no-work-done-during-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/05\/deputy-minister-lambasted-for-telling-teachers-that-they-were-paid-for-no-work-done-during-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Minister Lambasted For Telling Teachers That They Were Paid For No Work Done During Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Deputy Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Bright Wireko-Brobby has receive several backlash for saying that Akufo-Addo government paid teachers for no work done during Covid-19 and so they should reason with the government. His comments comes in wake of the strike action embarked on by the Pre-tertiary teachers.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/acb0d8c1074e47a789527d2eee6e1059\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In a video shared by TV3 on 5th July 2022, the Deputy Minister advised the teachers to reason with government because they were paid for no work done during Covid-19 era. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me I have said that they (teacher unions) have a legitimate concern but let me also say that for 9 months during the Covid pandemic, our teachers were at home but the government continued to pay them. And if today we have a global crisis, they should bear with the government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You may watch the video by clicking on the blue link.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reactions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It seems the words of the Deputy Employment Minister didn&#8217;t go down well with some Ghanaians. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/12718a4320a245fc90a6f77724ba835d\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Instead to find a solution to an arising case, see what you&#8217;re talking about. Were you and cohorts not paid? And for doing what exactly during the pandemic era.&#8221; A user wrote.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/3a214c3c46284b978b38f785c0f0dfce\"\/>&#8220;You are worsening the situation with your &#8221; a user wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Currentworldnews (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nBright Wireko-Brobby<br \/>\nTV3<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Bright Wireko-Brobby has receive several backlash for saying that Akufo-Addo government paid teachers for no work done during Covid-19 and so they should reason with the government. His comments comes in wake of the strike action embarked on by the Pre-tertiary teachers. In a video shared by TV3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1142771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[261,651,19808,1223,199,3483,8165,2980],"class_list":["post-1142770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-covid19","tag-deputy","tag-lambasted","tag-minister","tag-paid","tag-teachers","tag-telling","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}