After the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association’s July 15, 2025, meeting with the Fair Wages and Salary Commission, the government has decided to agree on three of their allowances.
The three include the book and research allowance, uniform and fuel allowance.
According to the leadership of GRNMA, the allowances will be included in the mid-year budget to be presented on July 24, 2025.
Meanwhile, the 8% non-basic allowance has been suspended due to errors in its computation.
Speaking to the press on July 16, 2025 in Accra, the Association’s president, Perpetual Ofori-Ampofo stated that “After extensive deliberation, it was agreed that the 8% percent non basic allowance which was intended to appreciate the market premium of nurses and midwives was, the employer was emphatic that there were serious distortions which has affected the market premium of nurses and midwives and that they will take urgent steps to rectify same”.
She explained that the fuel allowances will be paid to staff who are entitled to it at a rate to be determined by the government.
“fuel allowance will be paid to those who are entitled to it at government approved rate and not at the rate of 10.99 or the ex-pump rate as contained in our collective agreement, all other items as contained in appendix B of our collective agreement has to be costed and included in the 2026 national budget.”
“The meeting agreed that the employer will write to its agencies to continue with professional development and the pin renewal, the 13th month allowance, the medical and other items contained in the collective agreement,” Mrs Ofori-Ampofo said.
“The employer is to ensure that nurses and midwives have their accumulated required CPDs are duly licensed by December 2025 to start practicing legally by 1st January 2026,” she explained.
The leadership of the association indicated that plans for a second strike action is on hold but will ensure that the government fulfills its side of the bargain.
