The chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) Professor Emeritus Steven Adei has indicated that half of Ghanaians working in the public sector do not deserve their salaries.
In fact, he insists that a significant number of Ghanaians are overpaid juxtaposing their salaries with their output at work.
Speaking on Starr FM, Professor Adei indicated that the Ghanaian worker attitude remains one of the worst across the world.
“I think that most Ghanaians are overpaid, I can tell you that over 50% of public servants don’t earn their pay. They go to work and they have not worked to earn it so don’t talk about a pay as small because pay is related to productivity and output,” he lashed out.
Shooting down the counter argument of paying workers well to get the best out of them, Prof Adei contended, “if someone says that if you had given me what it takes to work, I would have worked, then you have actually fired yourself.”
Professor Adei also took it hard at labour, describing the persistent calls for pay rise because of inflation and cost of living as flimsy.
He is rather advocating a productivity driven tripartite meeting between government, employment and the Trades Union Congress.
“I want a tripartite meeting where public sector workers say we are coming into agreement with government. In the next three years, we will work to double government revenue. When we do that you will increase our salaries by 75%. This is the type of tripartite productivity wage link.
“But to come and say that there has been inflation and therefore increase my salary; if there is inflation and you haven’t produced, everybody must be poorer,” the economist, leadership and governance professor fumed.
Professor Adei is delivering a lecture on Tuesday at 5:30 pm at the Living Waters Assemblies of God Church on the theme “the attitude of the Ghanaian to work; implications for growth and work.”
The lecture will be live on air on Ultimate 106.9 FM and online at Ultimatefmonline.com and on tune in radio.
Source: starrfmonline.com
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this man always speaks as if he has the solution to our problem...but lacks to be objective in his submission. who employs the overpaid workers...come to GPHA...TOR...GNPC...other government institutions and the same government who has appointed Stephen Adei is the one pushing his foot soldiers to fill position where there is nothing to do....they sit in three's chatting and watching movies the whole day with some arrogant attitude because they were brought in by politicians...All the same Prof is the chairman of the developmental committee pls use your good office to re-develop the public sector...u cannot just say it but do something about it since uve been given a position to do so....U insult teachers and that they are ***barred word*** bcos the send their children to private schools and under perform at the public school...but come to think of it, the quality at the public will not appeal for me to take a maid to such schools..Even you, have built a secondary school, why didn't you add it to the public school to be paid as such ...in society, there are varieties and everybody is entitled to enjoy same.. which of your children attended Public school Mr KNOW ALL
And the number of ministers and presidential staffers are inadequate I guess? Good f) nothing Adei. you lack objectivity. You've lost your credibility. I am sorry!
.....And the the half are woefully underpaid!
The Prof is right. Too many so-called government workers do no work in Ghana. All they want is increase in pay. For what? You have to work for the money, you do not have to be paid more before you work. Out of the bounty of your work you get paid. We do not have to go for a loan to pay you more before you work. This ***barred word*** mentality has made us who we are today. Too may silly thinker in our mist.
I hope it's the Article 71 office holders you are referring to. Most of these people in this category do next to nothing yet their salaries are way up there. Prof. Adei, I hope you are aware of that
let them reduce your pay what do you do and u collect pay.you talk too much
See him again . compare yourself ,C.E.O's and elephant ministers what you output and earn one's annual salary every month
Hard truth! I really like this man. Ghanaians always looking for free money. Put in a shift of hard work and we will all progress!
How much are you being paid for no work done. Tell Ghanaians Adei
OHHHHHH THIS MAN AGAIN, SO CALLED Professor Emeritus Steven Adei. tell the president his ministers are too many