The Ghana Education Service (GES) has invited the leadership of three major teacher unions to an emergency meeting as it seeks to address mounting opposition to its directive requiring teachers and other staff to submit personal files for a nationwide job evaluation exercise.
The meeting, scheduled for Monday, June 15, 2026, at the Director-General’s Conference Room at the GES Headquarters in Accra, comes amid growing tensions between the Service and organised labour over the collection of staff records.
In a letter signed by the Deputy Director-General of GES, Prof. Smile Dzisi, the Service said the meeting is intended to address concerns raised by the unions and find an amicable resolution to the dispute.
“The meeting is aimed at resolving the impasse regarding the request for the submission of staff personal files for the job evaluation exercise,” the letter stated.
The invitation follows strong opposition from the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), and the Pre-Tertiary Teachers Association of Ghana (PRETAG).
In a joint statement issued on June 9, the three unions rejected a GES directive instructing teachers and non-teaching staff to submit personal information and employment records, including appointment letters, promotion letters and other supporting documents, through district and municipal education offices for onward transmission to the GES headquarters.
The unions argued that the information being requested already exists within the Service’s records and questioned the rationale behind asking staff to resubmit documents that should already be available to management.
They subsequently directed members nationwide not to comply with the directive and called on the GES to withdraw the request immediately.
The exercise forms part of efforts by the GES, the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC), and the Public Services Commission (PSC) to validate and update staff records ahead of the implementation of a new scheme of service.
The latest move by the GES is widely seen as an effort to ease tensions and avert a prolonged standoff with teacher unions, whose objections have sparked widespread discussion within the education sector.
The outcome of Monday’s meeting is expected to determine whether both parties can reach a compromise on the exercise or whether the disagreement will escalate in the coming days.
