GHS , MoH must act timely to prevent industrial action - Group

The Coalition of Cheated Medical Laboratory Technicians is made up of Technical Officers (Laboratory) and Biomedical Laboratory Scientists who were Technical Officers (Laboratory) at the time of the implementation of the single spine salary structure.

We as a group drew the attention of our leadership to our wrong placement in line with the principles of the single spine salary structure and job evaluation, which is based on equal work for equal job evaluated score, risk and market demand.

There have been several correspondence between the leadership of the Ghana Association of Biomedical Laboratory Scientists and the Health Services Workers Union on one side and the Fair Wages and Salary Commission and the Ministry of Health and Ghana Health Service.

On 30th January, 2012 , the Ministry of Health directed the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission to resolve the placement issues of the Technical Officer(Laboratory) cadre in a letter dated 30th January, 2012 with ref no. MOH/GAD 5.009.

Since then several reminders have been sent to the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission by the association but to no avail.

On April 10, 2017 we as a group petitioned the relevant stake holders namely the Ghana Health Service, the Ministry of Health and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission to look into our issues once again and to also give us audience.

After that we made several attempts at seeking audience with the Director General of the Ghana Health Service but did not yield any fruitful results.

Our demands

We want the GHS/MOH to rectify the anomaly raised above and all the arrears accruing to our members since 2012 be paid in full.

As law abiding citizens we are taking the path of peaceful resolution in addressing our issues to forestall any industrial action.

We however wish to state that if we don’t receive any favourable response from the Ghana Health Services and the Ministry of Health by 17th July,2017 , we will look at all legitimate tools available to us and deploy the appropriate one.