2025 salary increment in limbo: Government negotiating whether salaries should increase

2025 salary increment in limbo: Government negotiating whether salaries should increase

This statement by the minister designate, Hon. Rashid Pelpuo is scary. Or maybe he did not know the best possible way to put it. Or maybe that is the scary truth. 2025 salary increment in limbo

Salary negotiations for the 2025 salary increment are long overdue. Since the inception of the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSPS) over a decade ago, salaries were always negotiated before January salaries are paid. Except in the year 2021 when the salary negotiations took place in that year.

This year, too, salary increments for this year are yet to take place. However, many government workers take solace in the fact that a new government is in place which needs time to settle before the negotiations.

The scary disclosure

Behold relevant minsters necessary for the negotiations for 2025 salary negotiations are being vetted to take office.

Early signals for this year’s salary negotiations are expected to be picked during the vetting process. It is one of these vetting processes that the minister designate for Labor, Jobs and Employment, gave the clearest hint. The hint given is scary or perhaps the bitter truth.

According to Hon. Rashid Pelpuo, the government is currently negotiating whether salaries will even be increased this year. This is in response to a direct question posed to him concerning expectations of 2025 salary increments.

This statement could well be a diplomatic answer to mean they are yet to take a decision on the matter. It could as well mean they are actually begging labor unions to expect little or nothing during any possible negotiations. Attached is his exact response (video) when he was queried:

Other issues at the vetting

The minister designate disclosed that he has two wives and six children. He was also instrumental or brain behind the formation of TEIN, which is the students’ branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

Hon. Pelpuo is ready to vacate his role in the African Parliament. His toughest question was whether he ever meant unemployed graduates should look to cut grass or fetch stones to sell to those who need it. In the end, he provided a context to that statement he was confronted with in the year 2016, which was suggested to his agreement.

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