{"id":19074,"date":"2022-03-30T07:11:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T07:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=19074"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:31:54","slug":"nagrat-hoping-for-15-salary-increment-in-state-of-the-nation-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/03\/30\/nagrat-hoping-for-15-salary-increment-in-state-of-the-nation-address\/","title":{"rendered":"NAGRAT hoping for 15% salary increment in State of the Nation address"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content no-share\">\n<div class=\"content-inner \">\n<p>Ahead of the State of the Nation address today, the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has said it is hoping for a salary increase announcement from the President.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking toCiti News,monitered by <strong>NSEMGH.COM,<\/strong> the President of NAGRAT, Angel Carbonu explained that considering the economy, social and worsening economic conditions, some cushion was in order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecognising that the economy is in dire straits and the hardest hit are public sector workers, so I am expecting the President to acknowledge that fact and make that concession to the workers of this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am expecting a grand principle to be announced that as we move forward, the president will give some cola of 15 percent to workers to mitigate their financial situation. I am expecting that strongly,\u201d Mr. Carbonu said.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo\u2019s\u00a0 State of the Nation address will come as the country contends with rising inflation, fuel costs and general cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>Diesel is currently selling between GH\u00a210 and GH\u00a211 per litre, while the price of petrol has crossed the GH\u00a29 mark.<\/p>\n<p>The year-on-year Producer Price Inflation for all industries for the first month of 2022 rose to 15.6 percent, up from the 14.7 percent recorded in December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Fair Wages and Salaries Commission has indicated that there will be a\u00a0<strong>review of the salary structure<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"jeg_post_tags\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jeg_share_bottom_container\">\n<div class=\"jeg_share_button share-bottom clearfix\">\n<div class=\"jeg_sharelist\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the State of the Nation address today, the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has said it is hoping for a salary increase announcement from the President. Speaking toCiti News,monitered by NSEMGH.COM, the President of NAGRAT, Angel Carbonu explained that considering the economy, social and worsening economic conditions, some cushion was in order. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[13052,7462,6672,10380,5196,1125,6569,12773,6546,1124,67,1137,10381,3805,7669,12103,10334,5261,8430,5452,11688,6741,10333,3954],"class_list":["post-19074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-akufo","tag-cola","tag-cost-of-living","tag-diesel","tag-economy","tag-eric-angel-carbonu","tag-fuel","tag-increase","tag-inflation","tag-nagrat","tag-nsemgh","tag-nsemgh-com","tag-petrol","tag-president","tag-president-nana-addo-dankwa-akufo-addo","tag-price","tag-salaries","tag-salary","tag-salary-increment","tag-state-of-nation","tag-state-of-the-nation","tag-teachers","tag-wages","tag-will"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50687,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19074\/revisions\/50687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}