{"id":1253543,"date":"2022-11-18T15:45:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T15:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/18\/organised-labour-proposes-a-60-increment-in-base-pay-for-2023\/"},"modified":"2022-11-18T15:45:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T15:45:08","slug":"organised-labour-proposes-a-60-increment-in-base-pay-for-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/18\/organised-labour-proposes-a-60-increment-in-base-pay-for-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Organised Labour proposes a 60% increment in base pay for 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Secretary-General of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), Dr. Yaw Baah<\/p>\n

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Organised Labour has proposed a 60 percent increment in base pay for the year 2023 as they begin negotiations with the government.<\/p>\n

In a letter signed by TUC General Secretary, Dr. Yaw Baah and Isaac Bampoe Addo, Chairman of the forum of Public Sector Workers, Organised Labour cited the rising inflation and the 15% Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) granted on the National Daily Minimum Wage as grounds for their proposal.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue to the inflationary trends and the fact that 15% COLA has been granted on the National Daily Minimum Wage (NDMw). We humbly propose that a 60% increase on the 2022 Base Pay should be considered,\u201d a portion of the letter read.<\/p>\n

According to Organised Labour, a huge gap has been created between the National Daily Minimum Wage and the Base Pay as a result of accepting COLA instead of normal salary increase and granting increases in the National Daily Minimum Wage.<\/p>\n

The group said currently, the 2022 daily Base Pay on the 2022 Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS) is 16.26% below the 2022 daily minimum wage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn order to close the gap and restore the 10% point with respect to the National Daily Minimum Wage (NDMW), the daily Base Pay for 2023 should be GH\u00a2l4.88 plus 10% which is GH\u00a216.37,\u201d Organised Labour said.<\/p>\n

They, therefore, want the annual Base Pay on the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS) for 2023 to be increased to GH\u00a25,303.23 from the current GH\u00a23,672.84.<\/p>\n

Organised Labour further contended that the government ought to have increased the annual increment of 1.7% on the Single Spine Salary Structure to 2% in 2012.<\/p>\n

This, they said has not happened since 2012 and want the government to implement that next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, over the years, our plea to adjust the 1.7% step increment (annual increment) to a 2% step increment has fallen on deaf ears. The Organized Labour can no longer wait for the implementation of the 2% step increment,\u201d they stated.<\/p>\n

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Secretary-General of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), Dr. Yaw Baah Organised Labour has proposed a 60 percent increment in base pay for the year 2023 as they begin negotiations with the government. In a letter signed by TUC General Secretary, Dr. Yaw Baah and Isaac Bampoe Addo, Chairman of the forum of Public Sector […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1253546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[13842,226,1270,9305,1367,966],"class_list":["post-1253543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-base","tag-increment","tag-labour","tag-organised","tag-pay","tag-proposes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253543","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=1253543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}