More workers kick againstnew salary structure

Sunyani (Brong Ahafo), 30th July 99,

The Ghana National Association of Chieftaincy Workers (GNACWO) has expressed its dissatisfaction about deficiencies in the Pricewater House salary structure because as it has adversely affected the staff of traditional councils.

The association said the matter has already been taken up for redress and hoped the abysmally low salaries of the chieftaincy secretariat workers would be rectified.

The national president of the association, Mr Akwasi Asare Ankomah expressed this concern at the inauguration of the Brong Ahafo branch of the chieftaincy ladies club at Sunyani on Wednesday.

He explained that in the report regional registrars of House of Chiefs have been placed at levels nine, while some of their assistants are on level six.

Mr Ankomah said the salaries as compared to similar institutions, showed that there are serious discrepancies which require immediate remedy.

The national president of the chieftaincy ladies club, Miss Doris V. Padi, addressing the ladies said the period of marginalisation of women is over because "we are prepared to prove our worth in every sphere of national life".

She advised members of the club to work hard to remove outmoded customs by educating women in their communities to know and recognise their rights.

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