Members of the Central Region Branch of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association Ghana (CLOGSAG) have began a seven-day wearing of red band to register their protest against alleged unfairness on the part of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) to implement a salary top-up for its members after their migration onto the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS).
Mr Theophilus Ribeiro, the Regional Chairman of CLOGSAG, told a press conference in Cape Coast that FWSC made them to believe that the SSSS would significantly improve the lot of civil and local government workers but they had been been disappointed.
He said the two months' salary arrears for January and February, 2010 did not add a pesewa to the salary levels of its members who had negative change as a result of the migration onto the SSSS.
Mr Ribeiro said they in the region were solidly behind any decision the National Secretariat of CLOGSAG would take concerning the issue stressing that more that 2,548 out of 40,615 of its members got salaries below their 2010 salaries.
Mr Ribeiro said concerns were raised by the task force that oversaw the test-run of the SSSS and the task force promised that an analysis would be made and submitted to FWSC for onward transmission to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning for a top up allowance to mitigate the negative change and insignificant increase due to the migration which has made its members worst off.
He said FWSC was now denying this arrangement and therefore called on the National Secretariat of CLOGSAG as a matter of urgency to ensure that the FWSC abides by the arrangement.
Mr Ribeiro said �We in the Central Region will start by wearing red bands to register our protest against this unfairness on the part of the FWSC�, and urged the Chief Executive of FWSC to desist from such undesirable and unprofessional attitude towards this important pay policy.
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