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The Labour Division of the Accra High Court has dismissed a legal action by the Ghana Community Network Services Limited (GCNet) asking the court to set aside an arbitration award in favour of some 150 redundant staff of the company.
The court’s ruling means the arbitration award which enjoins GCNet to pay redundancy package to the 150 redundant staff is still in force.
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GCNet had indicated its willingness to pay the redundancy package, but said it would do so in “accordance with legal processes.”
In a statement, the Managing Director of GCNet, Mr Alwin Hoegerle, said the company would appeal the ruling of the High Court and exhaust all legal remedies before any such payment would be made.
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Before one gets out of bed this Sunday morning, dilemmas are already on hand to ruin one s breakfast.
Does one go to see people, as one fervently wishes to do? What does one say to someone who wants to attend a funeral 120 miles away from Accra, despite the reports that despite the warnings of the experts in the Ministry of Health, the Ghana Medical Association and some concerned individual scientists, people are still going about without wearing masks?
Social distancing does not exist in our markets and lorry stations. Nor in passenger vehicles (of course)!
Solomon Kotei, the General Secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union, who was present to show solidarity with the aggrieved staff said the union will ensure that justice is served to the workers. In our history, this is the first time an employer lays off workers without using due process. The law requires that when a company is going to carry out such an exercise, the number of people to be affected should be known, again, the criteria of selection for those to be laid-off should be set clearly. All these have not been done.” And to think that they issued a letter admitting to not following due process, this does not create a safe environment for any worker here. Our mission here is to get management of Coca-Cola to do the right thing, Solomon Kotei.
Coca-Cola workers protest unfair dismissal of colleagues LISTEN
JAN 11, 2021
Angry workers of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company Limited in Ghana have protested at the premises of the company following the alleged dismissal of about 30 of their colleagues.
According to them, the management of the company did not follow due process in laying off the said workers.
The General Secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union, Solomon Kotei who was at the place to solidarize with the protesting staff said the union will ensure that justice is served to the workers.
“In our history, this is the first time an employer lays off workers without using due process. The law requires that when a company is going to carry out such an exercise, the number of people to be affected should be known, again, the criteria of selection for those to be laid-off should be set clearly. All these have not been done.”