Collective Agreement for teaching staff signed – GNAT

The Ghana National Association of teachers has announced the successful signing of the new COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT for Teaching Staff within the GES.This was contained in a message from GNAT signed by the  General Secretary – GNAT, Mr. Thomas Musah.

Collective Agreements provide certain terms and conditions of employment for a group of employees, called the ‘bargaining unit,’ who are represented by a trade union. The Collective Agreement establishes the workplace rights of both the employees and the trade union.

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The message reads:

UNION ALERT:
We are happy to inform all and sundry that the COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT for Teaching Staff within the GES has been signed effective August 2020.
Copies would be given to all members in due course.
Thank you.
Thomas Musah.
General Secretary – GNAT

Recognition is “a joint negotiating committee made up of the teacher unions in the Ghana education service on the one hand and the Ghana education service on the other hand shall negotiate and agree on the terms and conditions of service, the scheme of service and the code of professional conduct for the teaching personnel of the Ghana education service in accordance with Section 99 and 102 of the labour Act, 2003 (act 651)