The single spine pay structure simply means having a single pay plan whereby employees in the same pay scale are paid equally. Using case study approach, the study highlighted the perception of workers about the single spine salary. The committee is made up of representatives from the organized labour and government. Revised unified scheme of service for senior staff of the public universities of ghana adminsecretarial staff position regulation chief administrative assistant ss i duties staff in this grade will be required to perform work covering a wide field requiring high qualities of sound judgement, initiative and precision. Single spine pay structure basically means having a single pay plan whereby employees in the same pay scale are paid uniformly. Data on ghana introduction in addition to the data below, the links at the bottom of this page will provide you with more information. Mwiedc midwest international economic development conference. In the specific instance of the single spine salary implementation processes, unpaid allowances and what i believe is the impatience of some public sector unions to be migrated onto the single spine pay structure constitutes a majority of the issues leading to the threats of and actual strike actions. Health administrators unhappy with single spine salary. The single spine salary structure of ghana seems to be going through a lot of serious.
Single spine salary structure in ghana according to ankomah 2009, having employees with the required qualification, skills and abilities to perform their job well is only part of the equation and will not automatically result in improved job performance. I want salary structure for my employee so please send me latest salary structure for 201920. Government white paper on the single spine pay policy table of contents 1. Mr albert aseiduofei, president of the association of health service administrators says the anomaly in placing subordinate health service administrators higher than their superiors on the single spine salary structure ssss is affecting morale. Specifically, the report describes recent developments in environmental fiscal reform efr in ghana, including the partial removal of fossil fuel subsidies in 20. Pdf estimating the fiscal costs of implementing ghanas. Following independence in 1957, corruption in the ghanaian public service led to both economic and. Foltz and kweku opokuagyemang evaluations can help. Following the implementation of the single spine salary structure, they was a pay rise based on the ranks in ghana education service. A personnel file is a paper or electronic folder for storing hr and payroll documents related to new, existing, or past employees. My appreciation goes to the leadership of organized labour and its rank and file for the patience and maturity they continue to show at various stages of implementation. Nov 23, 2012 a brief statement from the public affairs unit of the fair wages and salaries commission fwsc on thursday said, this is in furtherance of the implementation of the single spine salary structure, which is a major component of the single spine pay policy. The single spine pay proposal world bank documents. An empirical analysis of the relationship between minimum.
Speaking at the may day celebration in kumasi on tuesday, president akufoaddo. Base pay on single spine salary structure increased by 11. Ghana medical association vicepresident dr poku adusei said doctors were worried about the disparities in the public sector pay structure. Single spine salary structure levels for teachers yen. The public service of ghana is a juggernaut which has to pay about 470,205 employees under a novel and encyclopaedic remuneration system known as the single spine salary structure ssss. The singlespine pay structure simply means having a single pay plan whereby employees in the same pay scale are paid equally. Single spine full text salary equal pay for equal work free 30. The gogs decision to use the single pay spine considers the history of public sector pay in ghana, the ability to ensure that all institutions were placed on it and to effectively implement it. Medium term expenditure framework mtef for 2018 2021 ghana. A brief statement from the public affairs unit of the fair wages and salaries commission fwsc on thursday said, this is in furtherance of the implementation of the single spine salary structure, which is a major component of the single spine pay policy. Single spine full text salary equal pay for equal work. Every job has been valued and put on a point, say from one to 200 or. Ghanas single spine pay policy sspp was introduced as an attempt to establish. The single spine salary structure ssss is one of the major components of the single spine pay policy sspp introduced by the government of ghana and got implemented in 2010, to regulate the payment of public service workers especially those under article 190 of the 1992 constitution of ghana.
Ghana public health training institutions admission forms 20202021. The implementation of the single spine salary structure ssss. International journal of social sciences and entrepreneurship, 1 9, 315321. While the ghanaian single pay spine places all jobs onto a common structure, the standard single spine has different grade structures for different occupational.
The public sector employees included in the ssss are those in the civil service, the judicial service, the audit service, the ghana education service, the ghana health service, the parliamentary. The single pay spine places all public servants on one vertical structure. The salary structure guarantee that jobs within equivalent value range were paid within the same pay range, adding that, placement of the single spine salary structure would be done on the basis of grade structure constructed from the job evaluation exercise. For news about ghana, see accraexpats how to guide page how to keep posted with ghana news official name. Colonial structure of the economy redenomination single spine salary system ssss united states monetary policy tapering quantitative easing dwarves and juju men, high rise buildings, and a. However, with the single spine salary structure, police salaries have drastically improved in the last two years. Finance minister seth terkper a highly placed source within the corridors of power has disclosed to the independent that government would soon abolish the single spine salary structure ssss due. Ministry of employment and labour relations ministry of finance. According to the 2011 global integrity report, the law enforcement agencies are not. Nov 12, 2016 komfo anokye teaching hospital, kumasi. It was established in 2010 to replace the former ghana universal salary structure.
A fair and transparent employee reward system and other. Kwesi asante of the ministry of finance, all from ghana, for their warm cooperation and support at various stages of the development of this study. It is anticipated that the single spine pay policy will be able to restore equity and transparency in ghanas public service remuneration structure government of ghana, 2009. To the extent that the implementation of sspp in ghanas public sector represents a break with the past and doing things diff erently, the. Teachers below or equal to the level of a principal superintendent in ges earned between 500 800 gh.
On september 15, prison officers at both the kumasi central prison in the ashanti region and the sekondi central prison in the western region demonstrated against perceived inequalities in the implementation of the single spine salary structure. Water house coopers salary structure and the ghana universal salary. Sspp represented a change from guss to the new single spine salary structure sss while changes that involve a break with the past as well as doing things diff erently are described as discontinuous ones. Single spine salary structure, labour unions, equity, inequity. Job creation and development 320 cooperative societies registered. The national shortage of radiologists is exacerbated by their uneven distribution across the administrative regions of ghana. The initiative aimed to unify differing salary structures of the national government.
Base pay on single spine salary structure increased by 11 percent. Conveniently, other officials salaries within ghana remained the same, as did salaries for officials in the west african subregion. Photo taken on july 16, 2015 shows 1,000 cedi notes and a huawei mobile phone p7 worthy of 1,000 cedi in accra, ghana, july 16, 2015. Oct, 2011 the single pay spine places all public servants on one vertical structure. After the implementation of the single spine salary structure, the salaries were raised and based on the ranks in ghana education service pdf, the teachers below or equal to the level of a principal superintendent in ges earned between 500 800 gh. Sales representative job description what are their duties. Trade hub to evaluate ghanas single spine salary structure, a 2010 policy reform that doubled salaries for ghanaian policemena group notorious for petty corruption. However, the country soon slipped into authoritarianism in 1960, when the westminsterstyle parliamentary. Spine pay policy sspp introduced by the government of ghana and got implemented. Ghanas wage bill for instance accounted for almost 70% of government spending in 2012. By the mid1960s, ghanas reserves were gone, and the country could not meet repayment schedules. This payment structure was introduced by the government to improve the way public workers were being paid. Abstract this study sought to examine the implementation of single spine pay policy in the ghanaian public sector organizations. The gogs decision to use the single pay spine considers the history of public sector pay in ghana, the ability to ensure that all institutions were placed on it and to effectively implement it along with the following advantages and disadvantages.
Recent fiscal slippages in ghana have been attributed in part to the rise in ghanas wage bill. Post single spine salary structure technical committee. The allowances in each of these categories were identified in documents across. The single spine salary structure ssss in ghana civil service salary reform in ghana, though desired by many, has had a long and tortuous history of fits and starts with little actual reform taking place until recently. The 2018 budget statement and economic policy of the government of ghana is also available on the internet at. The single spine salary structure ssss is one of the major components of the single. Ghana education service ges salary structure gh students. Ghana has undertaken a farreaching governmental public sector reform initiative to harmonize public sector payrolls, called the single spine salary structure. The structure of the ghanaian state the structure of the ghanaian state is set out in the 1992 constitution. The implementation of the single spine salary structure ssss in ghana. Understanding what employment records to store in a secure personnel file helps you avoid potential mistakes and. Finance minister seth terkper a highly placed source within the corridors of power has disclosed to the independent that government would soon abolish the. We all know that employment is one of the major factors that influence the growth and development of any countrys economy.
Ssss single spine salary structure tmc treasury management tor tema oil refinery undp united nations development programme vats value added tax service. Abstract the single spine salary structure is one of the major components of the single spine pay policy introduced by the government of ghana and implemented in 2010, to regulate the payment of public service workers especially those under article 190 of the 1992 constitution of ghana. The millsndc government has persisted in its effort to implement the initiative which began under the. Single spine salary structure in ghana pdf pay policy and to assess the effects of the sspp on the ghanaian economy. The medical system in ghana article pdf available in the yale journal of biology and medicine 873. The single spine salary structure ssss was implemented in 2010 to among others, raise. In the specific instance of the single spine salary implementation processes, unpaid allowances and what i believe is the impatience of some public sector unions to be migrated onto the single spine pay structure constitutes a majority of the issues leading to the threats of.
Ssss single spine salary structure stc state enterprise commission stem science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Opportunities for radiographer reporting in ghana and the. Ghana abandoned the wacb arrangement in 1963 and introduced the cedi in 1965. They contend that, while the single spine salary structure is based on 40 hours of work per week for each category of workers, doctors work 56 hours per week. Mr aseiduofei said this undermined the managerial responsibilities of health service administrators and weakened their moral authority in the. Health administrators unhappy with single spine salary structure. Since then, ghana has been caught in a cycle of debt. It should include basic employee and compensation information in compliance with federal and state labor laws. The ghanaian single spine pay proposal is better defined as a single spine pay structure that attempts to place all jobs onto a common structure with 25 grades levels that include, in turn, 7 to 15 steps.
While the ghanaian single pay spine places all jobs onto a common structure, the standard single spine has different grade structures for different occupational groups, such as teachers. Estimating the fiscal costs of implementing ghanas single. Challenges of single spine salary structure in ghana. Republic of ghana in africa, ghana ranks 24th by size out of 54 countries, 14th by population and th by population density. Perceptions and effect on performance at cape coast polytechnic. It also sheds light on the various mechanisms of accountability built into the system. The new salary structure goes a long way in bringing equity and improvement in salaries especially in the public sector. Ghana was a constitutional democracy at its independence in 1957. Challenges of single spine salary structure in ghana asare. Information for staff any nationally negotiated pay increases will normally be applied from 1 august for nonclinical staff and 1 april for clinical staff.
The implementation of the single spine salary structure. The single spine pay policy is a new comprehensive pay reform program introduced to replace the ghana universal salary structure guss. Political corruption is also a problem within the police service. The constitution outlines not only how the various individuals and public bodies fit together, but also explains their respective functions. Jul 19, 2017 20170719 the basic salaries on the single spine salary structure have been increased by 11 percent across board, public services joint standing negotiating committee has announced. Skills development 974 professionals trained in management skills and productivity related courses. Subsahara african currencies have in recent months come under.
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