The Divisional Union of the workers of the Ghana Airports Company has rejected claims by the Board Chairman of the company, Paul Adom-Otchere, that they were paid their bonuses by the end of 2021.
Mr Adom-Otchere came under fire for allegedly spending GHS84,000 on four Christmas trees during the holiday season but refusing to pay the salaries and bonuses of workers for December.
In a Facebook response, he vehemently denied the claims saying: “The beautiful Christmas tree standing at Terminal 3 and 3 others altogether cost GHC 34,000, which was graciously provided by Jandel Limited at a heavy discount.”
“All salaries and or bonuses due to staff for December have been paid.”
However, the union has dismissed claims by Mr Adom-Otchere that they were paid before Christmas saying their December salary was paid in January 2022.
“It is never the case that GACL employees were paid bonuses at the end of the year 2021 as was put out there by the Board chairman. In actual fact, the last time bonuses were paid in GACL, was in 2017. Indeed as we speak 2018 bonus which was negotiated for is still in arrears.
“Again, for the records, employees December 2021, salaries were paid in January 2022, contrary to what was communicated by the Board chairman. This practice is so alien to GACL and is only gaining prominence in the last few months under the watch of the Board Chair,” the group said in a statement.
“Such factually inaccurate statements only end up giving rise to staff agitations especially with the knowledge that the Board has failed to give the mandate to management to commence negotiations on staff conditions of service with the Union after proposals were submitted in the middle of November 2021.”
