SAMUEL DZIKUNU & 4 ORS. vs. OVERSEAS PROCESSING ENTITY

This ruling is in respect of an application for interlocutory injunction filed by the Plaintiffs/Applicants on 7th April, 2010 for certain interlocutory orders against the defendant/respondent pending final determination of the suit. The plaintiffs/applicants had on the same day filed Writ of Summons claiming against the defendant/respondent as follows: a. A declaration that having initiated steps to carry out its declared intention to close down its operations in Ghana, the Defendant is required by law to negotiate and agree an appropriate redundancy pay with its local staff, i.e. the Plaintiffs. b. A declaration that failure and or refusal by the Defendant to negotiate with the Plaintiffs on the appropriate redundancy payment due to the latter, is unlawful. c. A declaration that the attempt by the Defendant to impose on the Plaintiffs redundancy payments unilaterally fixed by the former without prior negotiations or agreement with and in the teeth of active objection ther...