[2019]DLHC10344 • April 5, 2019 • High Court
THIERRY TAMIEZAN vs. NESTLE WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA LTD.
RULING ON WRITTEN LEGAL ARGUMENTS FILED BY BOTH PARTIES The Plaintiff herein is a national of Ivory Coast and was employed by Nestle Cote D’Ivoire in the year 2004 as a Junior Financial Accountant and was thereafter sent on expatriate missions to different Nestle companies under the same Nestle Group of Companies. In February 2017 the Plaintiff was offered an expatriation contract with the defendant herein, a company incorporated under the laws of Ghana. It is evident from the pleadings of both parties that the two companies ie. Nestle Cote D’Ivoire and Nestle West and Central Africa ltd. (the defendant herein) are two independent entities which belong to the Nestle Group of Companies. Whilst working in Ghana with the defendant herein and only five months into his employment contract, the plaintiff claims his employment was brought to an abrupt end by a letter dated 2nd June, 2017 which was written to him by the defendant which purported to terminate his contract of employment o...