Kofi Bentil, senior vice president of IMANI Africa, has accused the Ghanaian government of being to blame for the instability in that nation's labor market.

Mr. Bentil brought out the gap between employees on the single-spine compensation structure and officeholders under Article 71 when speaking on the Joy Newsfile show.

He continued by saying that the nation's political elite has consistently failed to address the issue of public sector wages.

"There aren't any issues with the general public or government employees.

The leaders are to blame for every issue.

Because they assist you in earning more money than you pay them, employees' salaries do not result in a net loss to the employer, he said.

“So if you take the civil and public servants, the government workers, whatever we’re paying them, if they were producing well enough, it will not be a net loss to you, it won’t be a problem, it will be a fraction of what they’re making,” he added.

Kofi Bentil further emphasized that the political leadership must again be blamed for the low productivity in the public sector.

“The public sector has about three times more qualifications than the private sector. And whenever they move, whether to international organizations or into the private sector, they produce massively. So why don’t they get the same levels of productivity when they’re in the civil and public service?"

“It’s because of the leadership and the political messing up of that space. It’s because people are appointing political misfits into office. It is simply because the leadership there is poor at every level.”

There is a deadlock between government and the labour unions who are demanding over 60% increment in the base pay of civil and public servants.

A proposal by government to increase salaries by 18% has flatly been rejected by Organised Labour.

According to the labour unions, their demand is influenced by the current economic crisis and the depleting purchasing power of their current salaries.