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GNAT calls on the government to
expedite action on pension scheme
Kumasi, July 21, Ghanadot/GNA - The Ghana National
Association of Teachers (GNAT) has called on the government
to expedite action on the implementation of the proposed
three-tier pension scheme to enable public sector workers
who have less than five years to retire to benefit from the
scheme.
Mr John Nyoagbe, Deputy General Secretary of GNAT, said the
delay in implementing the scheme would make teachers and
other public sector workers who had less than five years to
retire lose the benefits to be derived from the scheme.
He was speaking at the close of a five-day in-service
training workshop for some basic and second cycle teachers
and head-teachers in the Ashanti Region on Friday.
Mr Nyoagbe suggested that while the government continued to
seek ways to implement the new scheme, it should arrange a
package for public sector workers on the SSNIT pension
scheme who would not gain from the three-tier pension
scheme.
The course, which was organized by GNAT in collaboration
with the Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF), aimed to
sharpen the skills and knowledge of the participants on
school administration, mathematics and science, English and
French as well as technical skills.
Mr Nyoagbe said the association continued to live by its
mandate that enjoined it to promote high academic standards,
professional competence and exemplary conduct of its
members.
Mr Emmanuel Asamoah Owusu-Ansah, Ashanti Regional Minister,
in an address read for him, said the government was
committed to the improvement of education at all levels.
He assured the teachers that the draft legislation on the
new pension scheme had reached an advanced stage and
expressed the hope that it would be implemented to benefit
all public sector workers.
GNA
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