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Thursday, December 13, 2018

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

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