MR. MOSES TEYEKPITI AND MS. CYNTHIA LARBI vs. GENERAL TRANSPORT, PETROLUEM AND CHEMICAL WORKERS UNION (GTPCWU) [2016]DLNLC8354

MR. MOSES TEYEKPITI AND MS. CYNTHIA LARBI vs. GENERAL TRANSPORT, PETROLUEM AND C... [2016]DLNLC8354

Date	2016-04-13
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Citation No.	[2016]DLNLC8354

[2016]DLNLC8354
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >MR. MOSES TEYEKPITI AND MS. CYNTHIA LARBI<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>GENERAL TRANSPORT, PETROLUEM AND CHEMICAL WORKERS UNION<o:p></o:p>(GTPCWU)<o:p></o:p>[NLC]<o:p></o:p><div style="font-size: medium; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 31pt 31pt 1pt;">Our Ref: NLC/C-116/012/016/48V&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE: 13TH APRIL, 2016<o:p></o:p></div>FOR THE COMMISSON:<o:p></o:p><div style="font-size: medium; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">EDWARD BRIKU-BOADU (CHAIRMAN)<o:p></o:p>DECISION<o:p></o:p></div>Introduction<o:p></o:p>On 12th March, 2015, Mr. Moses Teyekpiti and Ms. Cynthia Larbi (hereinafter referred to as the complaint with the National Labour Commission (NLC) against the General Transport Petroleum and Chemical Workers Union- GTPCWU (hereinafter referred to as the Respondent) to the effect that their retirement benefits have been wrongly calculated.<o:p></o:p>Mr. Teyekpiti who had worked for fifteen (15) years prior to his retirement in September, 2011, was paid the sum of seventeen thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢ 17,000) based on a Collective Agreement signed in 2010 as against what he would have been entitled to under the 2003 Collective Agreement, Ms. Larbi who had worked for forty-two (42) years prior to her retirement in November, 2010 was also paid seventeen thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢ 17,000) as against her accrued entitlements per the 2003 Collective Agreement which she rejected.<o:p></o:p>On 26th March, 2015, the NLC'sent the complaint to the Respondent with a request for its written response.<o:p></o:p>The Respondent was also asked to supply the NLC with relevant documents like Collective Agreements or Employment Contracts. By a letter Ref. GTPCWU/NLC/Vol.3/229 dated 13th April, 2015, the Respondent forwarded its response to the NLC Subsequently, the parties were invited for facilitation in an attempt to resolve the complaint amicably.<o:p></o:p>After three meetings, the facilitation process could not resolve the differences and so the matter was referred to the full Commission for determination...<o:p></o:p>Pursuant to Regulation 33 of the National Labour Commission Regulations, 2006, (LI 1822), the Commission decided to hear the parties and determine the matter by means of Summary Settlement.<o:p></o:p>The Commission met the parties