The National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA), has engaged stakeholders in the pension sector in the Northern Region to share and learn best practices that would help to widen the pension net to reach more people, especially individuals in the informal sector.
The meeting, dubbed; “Regional Pensions Learning Alliance Platform”, was on the theme; “Driving pension’s penetration in Northern Ghana through learning and information sharing; the role of pension sector actors”, and held in Tamale.
Mr Alhassan Yakubu Fuseini, Head of the NPRA Northern Zone, said individuals in the informal sector s contribution to the pension scheme was low, saying they lacked the necessary information on the importance of being contributors.
Minority Leader Haruna Addrisu
According to the NDC MPs, failure of government to conclude negotiations on salaries and base pay before the presentation of the budget has left workers in a quagmire of uncertainty relative to their fate.
The Public Sector Workers Union(PSWU) had demanded an enhanced base pay for the year 2021, relative to previous trends ahead of the Budget.
It had requested that the Public Service Joint Negotiating Committee (PSJNC) convenes urgently to determine the base pay before the presentation of the Budget last Friday, but that did not materialize.
Consequently, the National Tripartite Committee is yet to agree on a minimum wage for workers and this, according to the workers is concerning to the union.
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