JUSAG Calls on Ghana Government to Review Salaries of Judicial Workers

The General Secretary of the Judicial Service Staff Association of Ghana (JUSAG), Mr Abdulai Yakubu, has urged the government to review the salaries of its members. Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Bolgatanga on the side-lines of this year’s National May Day celebration, Mr Yakubu expressed his disappointment that the salaries of judicial workers have not been reviewed for two years and four months.

As the third arm of government providing critical services to the people of Ghana, JUSAG members feel undervalued and unhappy with their current pay scale. Mr Yakubu noted that their salaries were supposed to be reviewed and paid in January 2022, but that did not happen. He pointed out that the Cost of Living Allowance (CoLA) that they were enjoying ended in December 2022, and the government did not take action to expedite their new salaries, unlike their colleagues in the public sector who have been enjoying a 30% increment for the past four months.

JUSAG members have been patient for too long, and they expect new increased salaries to be paid this month. Mr Yakubu warned that if the government fails to approve the new salary by the end of the week, JUSAG will employ any of the available industrial tools at their disposal. He urged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to approve and pay their new salaries, stating that “all the industrial tools are on our desks.”

During the May Day celebration, JUSAG members held placards with inscriptions like “Mr Prez CoLA is gone, taxes are killing us”, “Approve and pay our new salaries now,” and “Oh Nana Addo, two years, 4 months of No pay increase is unbearable, approve and pay our new salaries now.” The theme of this year’s celebration was “Protecting incomes and pensions in an era of economic crisis; our responsibility.”