Chief Executive of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission, Benjamin Arthur says plans are far advanced to ensure the payment of the agreed 15% Cost of Living Allowance (CoLA) to all public workers.
According to him, the modalities for the payment of the CoLA have been done and will soon be communicated to the organized labour.
In an interview on Joy News, he was however uncertain about when the allowance will be paid but said it will commence soon.
He said “we are certain that government will implement it, so nobody should have doubts. As soon as possible. Realizing the money in your pocket, we are working on the schedule, and I am sure, maybe in about two weeks to three weeks’ time, government will come out public with the exact date.”
The deteriorating cost of living as a result of rising fuel prices, goods and services, and the imposition of new taxes, as well as the high inflation rate, compelled most public workers to embark on industrial strike action in July this year.
The groups demanded that government pays a 20% CoLA to public workers.
Read: SSA-UoG declare strike over CoLA
However, a meeting between labour unions and government resulted in an agreed payment of 15% CoLA by July 1 but public workers are yet to receive the money reflect in their pockets.
Source: ATLFMNEWS
