The government solves the problems of delayed salary of newly recruited teachers

Director General of the GES, Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa

The Ghana Education Service (GES) management is organizing a series of meetings with the Comptroller and the General Accounting Department (CAGD), the Public Utilities Commission (PSC) and the Ministry of Finance to resolve the salary issues of GHG staff.

the The difficulties left 9,619 newly recruited GHG staff under the two-track education system, which started working in November 2018 without their first salary.

The list also includes teachers recruited in March 2018.

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In an exclusive interview with the Daily Graphic, Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, General Manager of the GES, said 22,701 other members of the service, promoted last year, had not yet been paid.

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He badured the people concerned that the GES was working hard with all stakeholders to ensure that all outstanding salaries and arrears were paid in a timely manner.

He congratulated Staff the payroll unit for having made an extra effort, sometimes to their embarrbadment, in order to carry out its work.

The causes

Current delay in payroll processes results from system connectivity and connectivity issues during the operating system migration (OGS) from the Integrated Payroll Data (IPPD) database to the information system Human Resource Management System (HRMIS).

This has resulted in delays in the issuance of personnel identity cards and the entry of biometric personnel data for salary processing.

Although the GHG smoothly migrated staff on its payroll into HRMIS as part of the Ghana Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS), it was not possible to done as a result of the change.

Measures

Professor Opoku-Amankwa said that a number of steps were being taken to ensure that the affected staff were paid promptly and mentioned some of them as an increase in the number of people. Payroll Unit employees to speed up the imputation of data of affected staff.

"In almost all regions, the number of collaborators entering the data has increased significantly. At headquarters, the number of data entered by staff has increased from six to 16; the three in the Ashanti region have grown to eight, while in the central region the number has increased from four to nine, "he said.

Night tasks

He said a major radical step taken the unit of payrolls to deal with the situation "is the decision to work at night instead of the day. Staff of the unit are forced to sacrifice their evening comfort to help complete the process "

He explained that the data entry from the initiator to the approver relied heavily on the Internet and had deplored the fact that the slow speed of the Internet was hindering progress working.

Professor Opoku-Amankwa said, for example, that even though each of the data importers could work on up to 48 forms per day, "unfortunately, because of the huge number of staff members connecting to the platform. it turns out to be exceptionally slow, to the point that sometimes everyone only makes two or three entries a day. "

He further explained that it was when the service understood the challenge that payroll staff were being asked to work at night to complete and speed up the work.

Normal procedure

He added that, apart from the challenges posed by migration, the new software posed its own problems as each newly recruited Staff service "normally goes through a process before it starts to receive salary".

He explained that, when a person was recruited, his documents were sent to an agent called the initiator, who had imputed the biographical data and forwarded it to another agent called the & # & 39 39,,,, 39 39 39 39 39. examiner, who had ensured that the correct data had been entered.

"But the examiner will have to wait for the CAGD to open the systems on the 27th of the month to use next month's salaries," he said.

As of the 27th of the month, the reviewer had six days to transmit all the data that he had verified to the third person called the auditor, he said, adding that all newly recruited staff members had to follow the same procedure.

Delays

Asked about when newly recruited staff would receive their first salary, Professor Opoku-Amankwa explained that with the extra effort made by payroll staff, the first group of employees concerned would receive their salary in May, providing all should receive their salary, except in special cases.

apology

He apologized to the staff concerned and badured that the GHG management was adopting various options to speed up the process.

Professor Opoku-Amankwa stated that the service was aware of the inconvenience, suffering and frustration experienced by the affected staff "and that is why it has established links with all relevant stakeholders, such as the PSC. , the CAGD and the Ministry of Finance, to solve the problems. "

"We urge officials directly to accelerate action and work tirelessly to solve problems," he said.