He says the level of remuneration should have been matched against results and not qualification as has been the case. That he said would have ensured that public sector workers are paid their real worth like in the private sector.
Mr. Azong was speaking in an interview said:
"I think that what the Single Sipne Pay Policy should have done was to do the pay vrs productivity indices and be able to say that if you are taking this amount of salary, then this is the productivity that is expected of you," he stated.
But this, according to him, did not happen.
He said there ought to also have been a system of performance contracts for supervisors to ensure that they demand tangible results from their subordinates.
The failure to predicate the implementation of the
pay policy, he said, had to a situation where government was putting in
substantial resources in remuneration for public sector workers and yet
there was not corresponding increase in productivity and the quality of
public services.
He said the new pay policy was taking some much
money from government coffers "that there is nothing left for services. I
mean we cannot be serious as a nation that all your money goes into
paying workers and what is supposed to expand the economy in terms of
services comes to standstill."
Mr. Azong, who is also the Peoples
National Convention (PNC) Member of Parliament for Builsa South
Constituency in the Upper East Region, said the economy cannot expand in
real terms and create jobs if public sector workers continue with the
old habits of going to work late and closing early while receiving
handsome remuneration.
In view of this, he said the Public
Sector Reform Secretariat had made proposals for matching productivity
with salaries which will be incorporated in next year's budget.
He is convinced that if adopted and implemented, the proposal will change the current situation for the better.
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