The Public Services Joint Standing Negotiating Committee (PSJSNC) comprising Government, represented by the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission, Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations, Ministry of Finance on one part, and Organised Labour, Associations, and Institutions on the other part, concluded negotiations and reached agreement on the Base Pay for 2020 per day.
The PSJSNC agreed that the current Base Pay on the Single Spine Salary Structure should be increased by 12 percent across the board for the year 2020 at the existing pay point relativity of 1.7 percent, effective today, January 1, 2020.
The Base Pay is therefore increased from GHC9.10 per day in 2019 to GHC10.19 per day in 2020.
Social Partners had also agreed to revise the prevailing rates of allowances expressed in the absolute amounts on the categories 2 and 3 allowances to new levels to also take effect from January 1, 2020.
The PSJSNJ also agreed that Ministries, Departments, and Agencies should take appropriate steps to give effect to the revised Categories 2 and 3 Allowances by new guidelines to be issued by the Ministry of Finance.
Research has revealed that the majority of workers spent their income on rent-related expenditures and the Government and its Social partners are embarking on affordable housing projects to take off that burden.
Source: Kofi Atakora
