Gov’t agree to 15% COLA for organised labour

A 15% Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) has been agreed between the government and Organised Labour to be paid to all public sector workers.

This was concluded at a negotiation meeting Thursday evening.

The new agreement will take effect from July 1, 2022.

The delegation from the government side was the Minister for National Security, Albert Kan-Dapaah, Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Adutwum, Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffler Awuah and Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Attah together with his Deputy Abena Osei Asare.

“We have had to adjourn the meeting because both parties; labour and government think that we cannot do this while a party is on strike, so the agreement is that we are going off to talk to each other. They call off the strike and we come again to meet,” Deputy Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Bright Wereko-Brobbey said.