The Chief Executive of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) George Smith-Graham says the July deadline for the implementation of the Single Spine Salary Structure for public service workers is non- negotiable. According to him, FWSC was following the road map that it agreed with its stakeholders to ensure that public service workers benefited from the new salary structure by July this year as planned. Mr Smith-Graham was addressing a durbar of public service workers and civil servants in Koforidua on Tuesday. He said workers groups that complained that their jobs were not properly evaluated were being invited to participate in the re-evaluation of their job within the week. He said the Commission was also breaking from its regional tours to negotiate for the base payment and the relativity ratio to enable it calculate the figures that could go with the pay structure it had designed under the Single Spine Pay policy. The Chief Executive warned that any reckless management of the SSPS in the face of the increasing world price of petrol could destroy the national economy. He explained that if a three per cent relativity ratio is used to calculate the public sector salary and the current minimum pay is used as the base salary, the total public service salary would increase to 9.1 billion Ghana Cedis which is far above the annual income of the country. Mr Smith-Graham added the Commission would ensure that civil servants were brought to the negotiating table to iron out any differences concerning the SSSS. He noted that because of the across the board negotiation, civil servants would have an increase in their salary when placed on the SSSS. Mr Smith-Graham explained that under the current dispensation, organized labour could legally negotiate with salary conditions only with the FWSC who would invite their management to participate. Source: GNA