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JACOB AKOSAH
V.
FEDERATED COMMODITIES LTD

(2016) JELR 107572 (HC)

High Court 29 Jan 2016 Ghana
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- The plaintiffs filed a lawsuit claiming that the redundancy exercise carried out by the defendant was unlawful and wrongful. - The plaintiffs were former employees of the defendant company and were declared redundant without negotiation o

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Suit Number:SUIT NUMBER INDL/56/14
Judges:JUSTICE LAURENDA OWUSU

JUDGEMENT 

The Plaintiffs issued a writ at the registry of this court claiming the following reliefs: ∙

A Declaration that the redundancy exercise carried out by the  Defendant by which the Plaintiffs were declared redundant is unlawful  and wrongful; 

An order of the court directed at the Defendant to review the  redundancy package in accordance with the Labour Act 2003; ∙

Damages for unlawful termination of their contract of employment;

By an accompanying statement of claim it is the case of the Plaintiffs that they are  former employees of the Defendant Company. According to them prior to termination  of their employment they had worked for years ranging from four (4) to sixteen (16)  years. They claim that on or around 19th August 2013 the Defendant wrote to Plaintiffs  to proceed on leave for the Defendant to “undertake an assessment and evaluation of  its activities in order to ensure greater productivity and proper functioning of the Company”. According to Plaintiffs per letters …

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