THE Koforidua office of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has intensified its public education programme to sensitise employers and organisations to its new monthly billing system.
The system, known as Employer Members Account Reconciliation (EMAR), is aimed at encouraging employers to regularise their workers’ monthly contributions.
The exercise, which is being undertaken in all the districts, is also aimed at enhancing good working relations between SSNIT and employers.
Addressing a seminar for employers at Koforidua at the weekend, the Koforidua branch Manager of SSNIT, Ms Betty Boham, called on them to make prompt and regular payments of the contributions of their employees to SSNIT to ensure the successful implementation of the programme.
Ms Boham urged employers who due to financial difficulties could not fully pay their workers’ contribution, to contact SSNIT for negotiations on the issue.
She asked employers to keep proper records of their contributions and update and notify SSNIT of changes in their records, since that would enable her outfit to prepare up-to-date bills.
The branch manager further urged employers to pay realistic salaries and wages to their workers, whether permanent, casual or on contract and probation, to guarantee them reasonable social security benefits in the future.
On employers’ indebtedness to SSNIT, the Koforidua Area Manager, Mrs Mercy Owusu-Ansah, said the inability of 8,345 employers to pay their workers contributions had led to their indebtedness to SSNIT, which stood at GH¢43,031,628 by the end of December 2007, and rose to GH¢53,442,670 by the end of December, 20.
Mr Owusu Ansah attributed such a problem to lack of commitment of employers, underpayment and under declaration of their labour force.
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