Ghana Education Ministry and Three Teacher Unions Reach Deal on Promotions and Pay Scales

Ghana’s three pre-tertiary teacher unions have agreed to suspend planned strike action after the government addressed complaints about promotion placements and salary scales.

The agreement followed a meeting Monday at the Ministry of Education involving the Ghana National Association of Teachers, the National Association of Graduate Teachers and the Pre-Tertiary Teachers Association of Ghana. Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu and Deputy Minister Clement Abas Apaak represented the government.

Under the resolutions, teachers will no longer need to travel to district or regional education offices and submit payslips as a condition for placement on the appropriate salary scale. Nearly 80,000 teachers are expected to receive the correct placement based on promotion examinations they passed.

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The outcome of the meeting has been positive, and we can announce that the teacher unions have agreed to continue doing their work, and that means that teaching and learning in our pre-tertiary institutions would continue.

The Ghana Education Service will send the required information to the Controller and Accountant-General’s Department so it can make the necessary adjustments and payments. Apaak said the unions had agreed to continue working, allowing teaching and learning in pre-tertiary institutions to continue without disruption.

The ministry praised the union leadership for reaching a compromise and said it remained committed to ensuring teachers receive their rightful entitlements in a timely and efficient manner.

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Teachers will no longer be required to go to district and regional education offices to provide pay slips and other documentation as a prerequisite for being placed at the right salary scales based on the promotional exams that they wrote and passed.