CLOGSAG demands sacking of CEO of Fair Wages and Salaries Commission

The Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG) has criticised the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) for migrating over nine hundred of its members to the salary structure of the Ghana TVET Services without their consent.

The Association has therefore served notice of strike from next week September 25 if the migration exercise is not reversed immediately.

Executive Secretary of CLOGSAG, Isaac Bampoe Addo spoke exclusively with our labour correspondent Daniel Opoku in Accra.

In August 2024, the FWSC migrated nine hundred members of CLOGSAG unto the TVET Services salary structure.

The new salary structure is under the control of the Ministry of Education and the Ghana TVET Service.

However, the staff are upset that the Commission failed to engage them before the migration. They contend that their August salaries and promotions have been affected.

“This issue has affected almost all the members I spoke for in Government Technical Training Center. We are thirty in all. As I speak now, we have senior members who have been terribly affected with this issue.”

“Most of them who have been there for several years and ready to go on retirement have been taken back, their promotions have been reduced, and here lies the case now everything has been changing for them. The money is not even good for them, and you have reduced it”.

“We were not engaged before migrating, we want to be moved back to the Civil Service, that’s our stance”.

Already, tension is mounting that the FWSC has been silent on the matter.

Mr Isaac Bampoe Addo is worried the industrial front will be affected from next week.

“We have had interaction with the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission, the Ministry, even the TVET Services and we have asked them that per law, they should have been given options whether they would want or belong to the TVET Services or Civil Service, this was not done”.

“Somebody who has worked for 36 years and asking the person to join TVET Services,, the person was not employed as a teacher, you are asking the person to write licensure exams is unfair,” he stated.

He called on President Akufo-Addo to dismiss the Chief Executive Officer of the Commission, Mr Benjamin Arthur for peaceful industrial climate.

“The man at Fair Wages and Salaries Commission should be sacked. He is creating confusion in the system. He should be sacked by the President; this is not the time for such things to happen. This is the time we need industrial peace”

“In the first place, he did it without our consent and this is devious, so what is your intention? Are you trying to dismantle CLOGSAG which you can never do that’s why I am saying he is not in for industrial peace. He must be sacked from that place,” Mr Bampoe Addo demanded.