The meeting, scheduled for 1:00 p.m. at the Council’s Secretariat, will focus on promotions, deprived-area allowances and the Collective Bargaining Agreement being negotiated between the unions and the Ministry of Education.
According to an invitation signed on behalf of the Chairman of the Council’s Economic and Social Development Committee, HRM Drolor Rosso Adamtey I, the meeting will provide an opportunity for Council members to be briefed on the unions’ concerns.
The engagement comes as the Controller and Accountant-General’s Department processes promotion records for 52,000 teachers ahead of the verification required for salary adjustments and arrears.
Controller and Accountant-General Kwasi Agyei said the Ghana Education Service (GES) had submitted the required promotion input forms after processing the records on the government payroll system.
He said that as of 2 p.m. on Thursday, October 8, the department had processed the promotions of all 52,000 teachers and received the accompanying input forms.
The process follows a September 28 directive by Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu for the GES Director-General to submit data on promoted teachers to the Controller and Accountant-General’s Department to facilitate the payment of salaries and arrears.
The delays in promotion-related payments were among the concerns raised by the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) and the Pre-Tertiary Teachers Association of Ghana (PRETAG), which embarked on industrial action over outstanding issues involving promotions, conditions of service and deprived-area allowances.
The Council of State’s meeting is expected to provide an opportunity to discuss the outstanding issues as efforts continue to resolve the labour dispute.
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