The Association of State Attorneys has threatened to lay down their tools in a nationwide strike if their call for improved conditions of service go unheeded.
The attorneys are peeved the Fair Wages Commission of Ghana, Ministry of Finance, the Justice and Attorney General’s Department are unwilling to implement the Compulsory Arbitration Award given in their favour by the Labour Commission.
The aggrieved attorneys say those on the Old Cap 30 system are yet to be placed on the Single Spine Structure since the switch adding they’ve not enjoyed pension benefit for about a year now.
The reliefs sought by the State Attorneys include:
Free official vehicles
Research allowance
Housing facilities or allowance
Free healthcare
Payments of correct harmonized salaries to state attorneys.
Sustainable pension scheme
Payment of outstanding leap, clothing and fuel
Payment of outstanding promotion salary arrears
Logistic support, machinery, equipment and tools
And illegal revision of conditions of service for state attorneys
“We are by this letter giving notice of our intention to resort to legal strike in 7 days if our demands are not met,†the letter by the association indicated.
