The Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG), has kicked against attempts to offload them unto the Controller and Accountant General's Department (CAGD) pay system.
"Even though we are not opposed to Government's efforts to adopt an equal work, equal pay salary structure through the implementation of the Single Spine Pay Policy, on the contrary, for various reasons it would not
be in the interest of the Polytechnics if their staffs are offloaded unto the CAGD pay system".
At a news conference held in Koforidua on Monday, Mr G. K. Abledu, National President of POTAG, said presently the CAGD pay system was engulfed with several insurmountable problems.
He said even before the start of the implementation, the polytechnics had been beset with difficulties adding that sample documents submitted by the polytechnics had been obliterated as they had not been properly linked
to the Integrated Personnel Payroll Database 2 (IPPD2) programme.
"Documents have to be prepared manually by the polytechnics before they are processed at the CAGD and already, there are signs of inaccuracy and ineptitude".
Mr Abledu cited an instance where Wa Polytechnic presented both a hard and soft copy of their staff list for processing and the list that was released by the CAGD, however showed a deletion of several names and an inclusion of unknown names.
"The situation was not different at Tamale polytechnic where the Accountant himself, who prepared the staff list and submitted it to the
CAGD, had his name off the list published for verification.
"Aside that, staff had their salaries slashed by half or more. In Kumasi and Koforidua, designations were changed completely whilst other
staff was not listed".
Mr Abledu indicated that teachers in the polytechnics, who teach in excess of the maximum teaching load per week, were paid overload allowances but no modalities had so for been put in place for such a payment.
He questioned whether no lecturer should teach in excess of the maximum load per week or whether such legitimate claims should be overlooked.