NCTE orders CAGD to recover paid November salary of CETAG members

Controller ordered to recover paid November salary of CETAG

members

The Head of Payroll at the Controller and Accountant

General’s Department has been ordered to recover November

salary paid to College of Education teachers who went on a

sit-down strike.

The teachers would however be paid their December salary,

the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) advised in

a communication to the Controller and Accountant General’s

Department on Tuesday, December 11, 2018.

The affected teachers under the umbrella body, Colleges of

Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG), embarked

on industrial action on October 29 in all the 46 Colleges of

Education.

“Failure to reach agreement with Government on Interim

Market Premium as well as Book and Research allowance for

members of CETAG, after a three-month period of

negotiation,” CETAG cited as reason for the action.

Even before the National Labour Commission (NLC) compelled

CETAG and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC)

to submit to compulsory arbitration, government

communicated to the teachers that they would not be paid

their November salary for staying out of the classroom more

than 23 days.

CETAG who would not describe their action as a strike

because they were “at post technically and we are still

carrying out some of our duties”, returned fire, saying they

would only go back to the negotiation table when the

November salary is paid.

But after arbitration, the NLC, on November 29, ordered the

teachers to resume work and restore full services from

December 3.

Meanwhile, the National Council for Tertiary Education has

stuck to its decision not to pay the teachers for November.

The Council noted that “few Colleges did not comply with the

directive” not to validate all teaching staff for the month of

November.

In situations where the November salaries have been

processed, the Council wants the Controller to recover them

immediately.

“Reports received so far indicates that November and

December salaries have been merged in some cases.

“It will therefore be appreciated if you proceed to recover all

November 2018 salaries of teaching staff in the Colleges of

Education designated as Tutors or Assistant Tutors with

urgency.

“No tutor or assistant tutor is supposed to have been paid for

November 2018.”

Source: 3news.com