The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has lamented the ‘unfair’ disparities in payment of pension claims to public sector workers.
According to leadership of the Union, there seems to be an emergence of a ‘class system’ in the payment administration which is favouring the Article 71 holders while public sector retirees receive low pension premiums.
TUC is therefore, calling for a complete overhaul of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) noting that the Trust is not functioning as it should.
The General Secretary of the TUC, Dr. Yaw Baah said, at a press conference said that ”the essence of SSNIT is completely gone. What is social security about people who earn GH¢300? I can assure you that if it wasn’t pushed further to GH¢300, there would still be people who earn less than that.”
In his view, workers earning a paltry GH¢300 should not be deducted adding that TUC would work with other Labour Unions to bring an end to the unfairness in remuneration for public sector workers.
”How can someone who earns GH¢40,000 be paying SSNIT whereas another who earns about be deducted also?”, he questioned.
Dr. Baah argued that the class system in pay administration in favour of Article 71 office holders must end immediately.
“The TUC and its affiliates have our eyes and minds firmly fixed on the outcome of the Single Spine Salary Review process currently underway. We are determined to work together with other organized Labour groups to end the unfairness in remunerations for public sector workers on the Single Spine Salary Structure on one hand and Article 71 office holders and State Owned Enterprises on the other hand”, he stressed.
