{"id":1165825,"date":"2022-08-04T01:39:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T01:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/04\/cola-will-hit-accounts-soon-fair-wages-and-salaries-commission\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T01:39:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T01:39:20","slug":"cola-will-hit-accounts-soon-fair-wages-and-salaries-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/04\/cola-will-hit-accounts-soon-fair-wages-and-salaries-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"COLA will hit accounts soon &#8211; Fair Wages and Salaries Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"COLA will hit accounts soon - Fair Wages and Salaries Commission\" title=\"COLA will hit accounts soon - Fair Wages and Salaries Commission\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>The Fair Wages and Salaries Commission says it has successfully completed drafting modalities for the payment of the Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) to all public sector workers.<\/p>\n<p>Demands for COLA resulted in weeks of labour agitation and industrial actions leaving government to commit to paying workers 15% of their salaries. <\/p>\n<p>The workers had argued worsening economic conditions had rendered their current salaries inadequate.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>Government and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission managed to beat down the 20% demand to 15% effective July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Workers are however yet to receive the money. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"427\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-08-03-at-11.29.25-AM-1-edited.jpeg\" alt=\"COLA will hit accounts soon - Fair Wages and Salaries Commission\" class=\"wp-image-10032145816\"   title=\"COLA will hit accounts soon - Fair Wages and Salaries Commission\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Chief Executive of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission, Benjamin Arthur, told <strong>JoyNews<\/strong> that payment will commence soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are certain that government will implement it. So nobody should have doubts. As soon as possible. Realizing the money in your pocket, we are working on the schedule, and I am sure, maybe in about two weeks to three weeks\u2019 time, government will come out public with the exact date. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat has been done \u201cmodalities\u201d and it will have to be communicated to organized labour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fair Wages and Salaries Commission says it has successfully completed drafting modalities for the payment of the Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) to all public sector workers. Demands for COLA resulted in weeks of labour agitation and industrial actions leaving government to commit to paying workers 15% of their salaries. The workers had argued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1165827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[5992,17092,3414,1767,1327,1296,1369],"class_list":["post-1165825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-accounts","tag-cola","tag-commission","tag-fair","tag-hit","tag-salaries","tag-wages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165825","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=1165825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}