[2021]DLNLC11185 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 style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B050;mso-font-width:90%">RE: IN THE MATTER BETWEEN TIWAAH OPOKU</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#00B050"> AGYEMANG<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#00B050">And<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:4.9pt;margin-right:118.55pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:99.65pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B050;mso-font-width:90%">UPPER<span style="letter-spacing:.2pt"> </span>AMENFI<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>RURAL<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>BANK</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#00B050"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">[NLC]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 31pt 31pt 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 1.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow:yes"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Our Ref: NLC/C-239/019/2021/49X </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">DAT</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">E</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">7<sup>TH</sup> APRIL, 2021</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">EXECUTIVE SECRETARY FOR COMMISSION:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">HON OFOSU ASAMOAH<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif">DECISION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.55pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.05pt;margin-right:26.65pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-font-width:90%">The<span style="letter-spacing:.25pt"> </span>disputing<span style="letter-spacing:.45pt"> </span>Parties<span style="letter-spacing:.85pt"> </span>appeared<span style="letter-spacing:.65pt"> </span>before<span style="letter-spacing:.75pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:.2pt"> </span>National<span style="letter-spacing:.2pt"> </span>Labour<span style="letter-spacing:.3pt"> </span>Commission<span style="letter-spacing:.95pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>7th<span style="letter-spacing:.35pt"> </span>April,<span style="letter-spacing:.2pt"> </span>2021<span style="letter-spacing:.2pt"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing:.15pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>hearing<span style="letter-spacing:.25pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt">the above-named</span><span style="letter-spacing:.7pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">dispute,</span><span style="letter-spacing:.15pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">which</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>over<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>dismissal<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Complainant<span style="letter-spacing: .65pt"> </span>from<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Respondent<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt"> </span>Bank.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.45pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:15.25pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-font-width:90%">Each</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:.4pt; mso-font-width:90%"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-font-width:90%">side</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:.45pt;mso-font-width: 90%"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-font-width:90%">was</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.15pt;mso-font-width: 90%"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-font-width:90%">led</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.35pt;mso-font-width: 90%"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-font-width:90%">by</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:.2pt;mso-font-width:90%"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.05pt; mso-font-width:90%">Counsel.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.45pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:15.6pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-font-width:90%">The</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt; mso-font-width:90%"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-font-width:90%">Commission,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:.2pt; mso-font-width:90%"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-font-width:90%">upon</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.35pt;mso-font-width: 90%"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-font-width:90%">hearing</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:.45pt;mso-font-width: 90%"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-font-width:90%">the</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.4pt;mso-font-width: 90%"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-font-width:90%">Parties'</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:.1pt; mso-font-width:90%"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-font-width:90%">submissions</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:.4pt; mso-font-width:90%"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-font-width:90%">and<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>evidence<span style="letter-spacing:.4pt"> </span>adduced<span style="letter-spacing:.2pt"> </span>decided<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>as<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>follows:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.1pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:.05pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:32.9pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:32.95pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-font-width:87%">(1)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-font-width:90%">That<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the Complainant<span style="letter-spacing:.45pt"> </span>is<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>not<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>entitled<span style="letter-spacing:.1pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>one month's<span style="letter-spacing:.55pt"> </span>salary<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>lieu<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>notice.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.4pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:35.1pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:32.95pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:107%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; 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