Beautiful Terminal 3, unhappy underpaid staff… Kotoka International Airport worker writes

AmeyawDebrah.com, has received an email from a Kotoka International Airport worker, highlighting the challenges some workers at the airport are going through currently.  The staff member, who wishes to remain anonymous, wrote:

The problem I have at the airport is that workers are paid as low as Ghc400-600, which is very bad. We have cried a lot to management but nothing has been done about it. 

The Ghana Airport Company should set a standard payment for every company that comes to the airport, to pay workers. If we get better pay, I think extortion at the airport would reduce tremendously. 

Even the uniforms we wear are deducted from our salaries. This is the reason why some passengers complain of workers extorting monies from them when traveling.

Companies have employed people on contract basis for more than a year, why because if they make them permanent workers, they need to pay them over time so they employ us based on contracts.

People are suffering especially those who have families. Out of fear, the workers have not been able to form unions that help to protect the interest of workers. 

If the Ghana Airport Company sets standards for every company to work with, things will be ok.  We have no rights …that are the kind of fear they have put into us, so much that even our supervisors can’t talk for us.

What hurts the most is there are no benefits from the company to workers when you are sick; or overtime payment for us after we have worked more than our usual working hours. I would love for u to just get closer to some of the airline security and hear for your self.