{"id":13116,"date":"2025-09-12T09:30:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13116"},"modified":"2025-09-12T09:30:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:30:52","slug":"gnat-backs-mahamas-promise-to-review-single-spine-salary-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13116","title":{"rendered":"GNAT backs Mahama\u2019s promise to review Single Spine Salary Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"177\" data-end=\"398\">The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has welcomed President John Dramani Mahama\u2019s pledge to review the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS), describing the current system as riddled with unfair disparities.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"400\" data-end=\"634\">At his recent media engagement on Wednesday, September 10, President Mahama admitted that the SSSS, introduced in 2010 to harmonise public sector salaries, has fallen short of its goal of fairness and pledged a comprehensive review.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"636\" data-end=\"737\">Reacting to the announcement, GNAT General Secretary Thomas Musah said the review was long overdue.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"739\" data-end=\"1094\">\u201cHow can you go to a university, do the same programme\u2014meaning they have the same value\u2014and yet, on the spine, the moment they come out, one is placed on level 18 and the other on 16? How do you explain this? Since we are in the nation and working together, we need systems that reward people adequately and fairly,\u201d he stated on Thursday, September 11.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_2_ads  \">\n<div class=\"ads-wrapper align-center \">\n<div class=\"ads_shortcode\">\n<div class=\"a-single a-10\">The SSSS was originally designed to unify salaries across the public sector, with grades and steps determined by job evaluation under the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-start=\"1273\" data-end=\"1456\">While the system helped reduce some disparities and labour unrest, it also led to a ballooning public wage bill and has repeatedly come under pressure from unions demanding reforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has welcomed President John Dramani Mahama\u2019s pledge to review the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS), describing the current system as riddled with unfair disparities. At his recent media engagement on Wednesday, September 10, President Mahama admitted that the SSSS, introduced in 2010 to harmonise public sector salaries, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":13117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3525,41,3507],"tags":[202,1256,4045],"class_list":["post-13116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-general-news","category-national","tag-gnat","tag-mahama","tag-sss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13118,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116\/revisions\/13118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}