General News of Monday, 13 January 2020Source: citinewsroom.comMigration of TUTAG, others unto public university pay structure completed – FWSCFWSC says it has completed the migration of senior and junior staff of the technical universitiesThe Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) says it has completed the migration of senior and junior staff of the technical universities from the polytechnic single spine grade structure to the appropriate grade structure of senior and junior staff of public universities. The letter said the Commission noted that responsibility and entertainment allowance were illegally paid to non-office holding senior and junior staff in the past without being consolidated. Dr. Edward Kwapong told Citi News that differences in salaries between what the polytechnic staff earned in the past and what they are to earn as university staff have now been settled. “Fair Wages in collaboration with NCTE and the Controller have worked on the migration from the polytechnic structure unto the university structure and because of that, certain positions that existed in the polytechnics can no longer be found on the public universities pay structure,” he said. About TUTAG strikeThe Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG) declared an indefinite strike on January 6, 2020, in protest of the non-payment of allowances due its members following the conversion of polytechnics to technical universities.

Source: GhanaWeb January 13, 2020 06:11 UTC