The Immediate past General Secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union, Solomon Kotei says employers are sitting on a ticking time bomb due to the insufficient compensation they pay employees.

He made this comment during Joy FM’s Super Morning Show on Tuesday. This was in response to sentiments shared by ardent listeners who called into Show.

Many of those who called said their outputs do not match the compensation they receive at the end of the month.

Reacting to their concerns, Mr Kotei noted that there is a looming threat of employees rising up against the system due to their discontentment over wages.

“People are now facing the crunch of life, they must get goods and services and those ones are not free; they must pay for them. Essentials like rent, food, and other things.

“And the conversation we heard today is giving as a signal to a particular direction that very soon, people are going to get fed up with the system and if we don’t take care what is happening in other countries can also strike in our faces,” he told host Kojo Yankson.

To avert any future adversities, the former General Secretary called on employers to be transparent about the operations of their businesses to their employees frequently.

According to him, this is necessary to erase employees’ perception that employers make profits but refuse to pay them well.

“It is very important that an employer will have a durbar with its staff, either quarterly or based on how their structures are broken down, and let the employees know which direction the business is going,” he said.

To employees, Mr Kotei advised that in order to earn better salary, prospective job-seekers must burn the midnight candle to build their CVs.

Mr Solomon Kotei said considering the high requirements for employment, in terms of experience and qualifications, most workers and their unemployed colleagues are trying to update their CV to catch up with demands of the job market.

“So go to Accra Workers College, after 5:00pm, you’d find people sitting there learning to do something, and even late.

“If you can’t sacrifice. If you can’t say, look, let me burn the midnight candle a bit to make a better fortune. Because in most of our institutions, the higher your qualification, they match it to your earnings.”