The Chief Executive of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC), George Smith Graham has said his outfit will not be moved by threats from NAGRAT, adding that his outfit is dealing primarily with GES and not the group, in the migration of teachers onto the Single Spine Salary System(SSSS). Speaking on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show, Mr. Graham said the FWSC had a mandate to ensure that all public sector workers were migrated onto the SSSS and therefore, cannot just meet NAGRAT’s demands to the detriment of the process. He said his outfit will remain firm in their responsibility and not be fazed by threats of industrial actions by NAGRAT or any other group, for that matter. George Graham explained that the reason for the delay in migrating teachers onto the SSSS was because the FWSC was furnished with some of the relevant data of teachers a few weeks ago and are still waiting for the complete data. This he said made the situation of migrating them onto the scheme by November this year impossible, since the data has to go through a number of processes before they can be registered. Touching on the principal superintendent’s level, an issue raised by NAGRAT, he said it was not true that the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission was responsible for placing the principal superintendent on level 14, but rather it placement was as a result of the job evaluation that was done. George Graham said that GES stated that they wanted an analogous position of ensuring that workers within the same bracket receive the same remuneration contained in the SSSS. He said his outfit had no problem with that, but added that the job evaluation conducted rather pointed to the opposite, citing that the reason was due to the decision taken whereby, individuals are grouped together according to the job being done and not just the certificate in question. According to the FWSC chief, a re-evaluation was conducted to address the problems encountered in the first evaluation and GES brought representatives to facilitate the process. He said after the re-evalaution, GES kicked against the inclusion of their own chosen representatives because according to them, they were not competent enough. “We (FWSC and GES) all sat down together and we went through a job re-evaluation…Ghana Education Service brought people to do the re-evalutaion, at the end of the day, when we were doing the re-evaluation, they kicked against the people who came to do the re-evaluation.” He said he has asked them to return to the negotiating table but this has gone unheeded by GES. It will be recalled that NAGRAT earlier threatened to embark on a strike if their demands of implementing the SSSS is not done by the end of the year. Story by Fidel Amoah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana