EBENEZER AYENSU vs. MR DAVID ASAMOAH BOADI

MERLEY WOOD, JA The Plaintiff/Appellant, an electrician, was recruited from Ghana with nine others to work in Liberia at the expense of the contractor Neutral Link Engineering (NLE) for a year from 1st August 2012 to 31st July 2013 to check illegal electrical connections on meters. The Plaintiff avers that he fractured his left femur whilst at work on 19th February 2013 and thus had surgery on it and another surgery on 3rd July 2013 at the John F. Kennedy Center (JFK) where a plate and screws were implanted in the said thigh when it broke again. Consequent upon his injury, he was unable to walk, so he was kept in the house rented for all the artisans by his employer. His monthly salary of Four Hundred Dollars ($400) was reduced to Three Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($350) by his employer when he got injured and could no longer work and he even had to employ a caregiver whom he paid One Hundred Dollars ($100) for a fortnight. The Plaintiff’s case is that the Defendants not only kept h.....