Employees in the public sector will earn a 7% pay raise this year.
This is a 3% increase over the previous year's payment.
Ignatius Baffour Awuah, Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, made the announcement in Kumasi during the 6th Quadrennial National Conference of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT).
Last year, the government increased public sector employee salaries by 4%. People who were affected by the decision were unhappy.
This was not the case with the Ghana National Association of Teachers.
The severe economic impact of the Covid-19 outbreak, according to the Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, informed the decision.
"At the height of the pandemic, we were able to protect the work of every public sector employee in Ghana, including teachers, even GNAT members," he stated.
"We had to also negotiate with the leadership of organized labor, and in the process, we had to accept that we had to be modest in our request on the national kitty," he continued, "and that is how we ended up at the 4%."
"We promised that at the end of this year, the four percent would be gone, and we'd offer workers a seven percent raise."
He did not, however, specify when the raise will take effect.
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