[2019]DLCA7778 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B0F0">JAMES LUMOR, WILLIAM DATSOMOR AND MICHAEL BLUVI<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span class="NoSpacingChar"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">(PLAINTIFFS/RESPONDENTS</span></i></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 240); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">ITAL PRESTRESS CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS (IPCP) LIMITED<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:115%"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(</span></i><span class="NoSpacingChar"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">DEFENDANT/APPELLANT</span></i></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">)</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B0F0"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">[COURT OF APPEAL, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm; mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">SUIT NO H1/75/2019<span class="NoSpacingChar"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> DATE: 24<sup>TH</sup> OCTOBER, 2019<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">CORAM:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">ADJEI J.A, LOVELACE J.A, KWOFIE J.A<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm; mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:115%"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Adjei, J.A:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The three Plaintiffs in the court below took an action against their employer, the Defendant but the 2<sup>nd</sup> Plaintiff abandoned his claim in the course of the trial and therefore had his claim dismissed . The Plaintiffs in the High Court were claiming for six reliefs and all of them bordering on employer - employee relationship. The reliefs sought by the Plaintiffs in the High Court against the Defendant are as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: .55pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">“i. <b><i>A declaration that having been in the continuous employment of the Defendant for several years and after having been variously promoted on merit to higher grades and warded Long service Awards, the Plaintiffs’ employment with the Defendant ought to have been deemed to have become statutorily converted into permanent contracts of employment pursuant to Section 75(i) of the Labour Act, 2003, Act 651.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: .55pt;line-height:115%"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">ii. An order that the Plaintiffs shall be deemed and accorded the status of permanent employees and remunerated accordingly pursuant to Section 75 of Act 651.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: .55pt;line-height:115%"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">iii. A declaration that the failure and or refusal by the Defendant to treat and remunerate the plaintiffs as permanent employees derogates from the Plaintiffs’ conditions and quality of employment; discriminates between the plaintiffs and the so-called permanent employees at the workplace by denying the Plaintiffs the right to join a trade union and also constitutes an unfair labour practice by the Defendant under Section 127 of the Labour Act,2003,Act 651.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: .55pt;line-height:115%"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">iv. Damages for the Defendant’s discrimination against the Plaintiffs at the workplace and for its unfair labour practice against them.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: .55pt;line-height:115%"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">v. An order for the payment to the Plaintiffs of any entitlements, rights and or privileges they would have been entitled to but for the unlawful conduct of the Defendant.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: .55pt;line-height:115%"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">vi. Further or in the alternative having originally created the impression that was employing the Plaintiffs as permanent employees, it was entirely wrong for the Defendant to turn round years later to attempt to bully Them into signing a short –term contract of 2 years duration at a time”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-att