Provide Necessary Logistics To Your Workers To Increase Their Output – Government Told

An economist and political analyst Dr Alex Emmanuel have asked the government to make the necessary logistics available to public sector workers to increase their output to match their salaries if the public sector workers are being overpaid.

Dr Alex was reacting to what government statistician prof. Samuel kobina Annim said public sector workers are being overpaid on Plan B Fm morning show Nkosuonsem when speaking to Ohene Addo.

He stressed that low productivity among the African public sector workers is a result of government failure to provide logistics for workers to increase their output and Ghana is not an exception.

“Public Sector worker’s salaries are standard and it needs to be adjusted upwards with immediate effect looking at the living conditions in the country and inflation has also gone up and it’s effecting every aspect of their lives” he stated.

The Government Statistician, Professor Samuel Kobina Annim, has said workers in the public sector are generally overpaid for work done.

The Government Statistician said averagely, public sector workers were paid double for their output.

He has, therefore, called for the creation of a Public Productivity Committee of Parliament to work like the Public Accounts Committee and ensure that ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) and the public sector, in general, deliver output commensurate with their earnings.

Delivering his inaugural lecture at the University of Cape Coast last Thursday, Prof. Annim said while earnings averaged about GH¢3,420 for the public sector worker, output in the sector averaged about GH¢1,420, less than half the earnings.

“What people earn should be equal to their output and be equal to what they spend,” he said, adding that basically there was something wrong and that such gaps should be closed in the country’s quest for real development.

He observed that the tenure of public officers of such institutions and organisations should be renewed or revoked, based on the attainment of targets.

Prof. Annim said workers should be made to account for their output.