SAMUEL KOFI ANKU-AMEWU
V.
LANCASTER PLANT LTD.
The Plaintiff herein, Samuel Kofi Anku-Amewu had been working with the Defendant as an Accountant since January, 2007. In December, 2008, the Defendant informed the Plaintiff that it had decided to embark on a down-sizing exercise due to the suspension of a contract between the Defendant Company and the Golden Star Resources Company Limited, a mining company. The Plaintiff was as a result asked to choose between being temporarily laid-off or permanently leave the Defendant Company with a package of one month’s basic salary multiplied by the number of years worked. The Plaintiff opted to leave permanently. It, however, realized that his benefit was subject to negotiations so he requested to be paid three months’ basic salary multiplied by the number of years worked as pertained in other similar organizations in the locality.
The Plaintiff claims that in spite of his disagreement of one month’s salary multiplied by the number of years worked he told the Defendant Company through the Mana…