JUDGMENT
ADJEI-FRIMPONG, JA:
The facts of this case are by no means complicated and we set them out to chart the path for our discourse in this appeal.
The Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Limited (the Bank), sometime in 2015 decided to undergo a restructuring. In the exercise, some of the staff were to suffer redundancy. For purposes of working out a redundancy package for the affected staff, the Bank went into negotiation with the Union of Industry Commerce and Finance Workers (UNICOF) of the T.U.C., of which the affected staff were constituent members. A proposed redundancy package was negotiated and put in a Memorandum of Understanding (M.O.U) which, dated 22nd January 2016, was executed by the Bank and representatives of the union.
A group among the affected staff who were dissatisfied with the package in the M.O.U., decided to challenge it by filing two separate suits in the High Court. Save the difference in the number of plaintiffs and a plea of fraud in the first suit, both suits e…