The Minister of Employment and Social Welfare, Mr Stephen Amoanor Kwao, has assured workers of the favourable resolution of grievances in relation to the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS). His assurance comes at a time when workers are agitating over the SSSS because some claim it aggravates distortions in pay policy rather than ensure equity, while others want its immediate implementation. The SSSS is the integrated pay policy for public sector workers that seeks to instill equity in salary administration. In an interview with the Daily Graphic, the minister said the government was committed to ensuring a public sector pay policy that was acceptable to the broad spectrum of public sector workers. Consequently, he said, a technical committee of the National Tripartite Committee tasked with reviewing the SSSS had finished its work and the report would form the basis of discussions in a stakeholders' meeting by the middle of this month. He said with the report, all complaints of workers in various sectors would be addressed. The report from the technical committee, according to the minister, reviewed the advantages and disadvantages of the structure and the challenges and scenarios in ensuring the implementation of the structure. Meanwhile, a statement signed by the Deputy Minister of Employment and Social Welfare, Mr Antwi Bosiako Sekyere, said high level discussions had been held by the Vice-President with the leadership of organised labour on the postponement of the national launch of the new pension reform implementation committee and the SSSS for public sector employees. It said the Vice-President explained the circumstances that led to the postponement of the launch of the two schemes and promised that arrangements would be made in the near future for their inauguration. The statement said the Vice-President assured the leadership that the mid-May consultative workshop to be organised would pave the way for the eventual implementation of the SSSS. While workers expressed dissatisfaction with the delay in the implementation of the SSSS and the three-tier pension scheme and asked for the expeditious implementation of the two, the Vice-President promised to keep the lines of communication open in the interest of all parties. Present at the meeting were the Minister of Employment and Social Welfare; the Secretary-General of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Mr Kofi Asamoah; the Secretary-General of the Ghana Federation of Labour, Mr Abraham Koomson; the Executive Secretary of the Civil Servants Association, Mr James Amissah; the General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Mrs Irene Duncun-Adanusa; Mr Abdul Latif of the Judicial Services Staff Association (JUSSAG), among others. Source: Daily Graphic