The Ghana Education Service (GES) Has Warned Against Salary Validation Lapses And Indicated that School Heads and Validators to Face Sanctions Should Errors Continue To Exist.
The management disclosed that it has observed with serious concern the number of employees applying for the reactivation of unverified salaries in recent times.
The GES Salary Validation Lapses Cause Delays and Challenges
In a letter to caution the authorities in charge of salary validation, the GES outlined six factors that continue to negatively impact salary validation and create problems.
These include the following:
#1. Using Validation as punishment on employees as equalisation.
According to the GES, some Validating Officers and head teachers have institutionalised and regularised the use of salary validation as a means of punishing colleagues and staff of the service, which is a wrong practice.
#2. Failing to add incoming employees as ‘Missing Staff’ regularly until their management units are changed has also been identified as a major concern.
#3. Validating employees who have been reposted to other units as ‘Unknown’ without reaching out to them to be added as ‘Missing Staff’ by their new Cost Centre Managers (Validators).
#4. Wrongly validating employees as ‘Unknown’ and submitting without proofreading the work done on the payment voucher.
#5. Final Validators are submitting Payment Vouchers (PV) without properly checking what the primary validators have done.
#6. Forwarding/submitting PVs without checking for names that might have dropped off.
The above factors have negatively impacted the efficiency expected by the GES in the validation of salaries.
Based on the above observations, all personnel responsible for validations, especially School Heads, are cautioned to exercise proper due diligence to ensure that the Earned Salaries of employees are not unnecessarily taken off the PVs.
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Municipal/District Directors are also to ensure that any validator who inappropriately denies an employee their earned salary is sanctioned; this may include an embargo on salary until the employee’s salary is restored.
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The GES further called on all offices to ensure that the worker who has earned a salary enjoys it at the end of the working month, in the interest of productivity and industrial harmony at all times.
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