[2022]DLNLC15025 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;color:#00B050">FRANCIS CUDJOE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;color:#00B050">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;color:#00B050">WESTEC SECURITY SYSTEM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt">[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: 0in 0in 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt">Our Ref: NLC/C-700/018/022/101 28<sup>TH</sup> NOVEMBER 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt">DIRECTOR, ADMIN/HR:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt">DR. BERNICE WELBECK<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0in;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0in 1.0pt 0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt">DECISION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:32.95pt;line-height:108%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:108%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-font-width:110%">On<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>Wednesday,<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt"> </span>16<sup>TH</sup> November<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt"> </span>2022<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:3.7pt"> </span>parties<span style="letter-spacing:3.9pt"> </span>were<span style="letter-spacing:3.55pt"> </span>invited<span style="letter-spacing:3.65pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:3.8pt"> </span>appear<span style="letter-spacing:3.75pt"> </span>before<span style="letter-spacing:3.45pt"> </span>the National Labour Commission in the above-mentioned dispute.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:108%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.35pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.05pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-font-width:110%">The<span style="letter-spacing:1.85pt"> </span>Complainant appeared, but<span style="letter-spacing:1.35pt"> </span>Respondent<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing:1.9pt"> </span>absent<span style="letter-spacing:1.7pt"> </span>and the<span style="letter-spacing:1.7pt"> </span>records<span style="letter-spacing:1.65pt"> </span>show that<span style="letter-spacing:1.5pt"> </span>the Respondent has been unco-operative since the dispute was brought against it.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:106%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.2pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><h1 style="margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:110%">Complainant's<span style="letter-spacing:.55pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">Case</span></span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.05pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:55.85pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 108%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:108%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-font-width:110%">The<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>complainant submitted that he was a<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>former employee<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>respondent<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>company whose appointment was<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>.suddenly terminated when he refused to resign at the instance of the <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">Respondent.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:108%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.05pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><h1 style="margin-left:0in"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt; mso-font-width:110%">Respondent</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.15pt;mso-font-width:110%"> </span><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.2pt;mso-font-width:110%">Case</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.05pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">Respondent failed and/or refused to submit its response to the complaint and also did<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>not attend any of the<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt">hearings </span>in the<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>matter though it was invited.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.05pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><h1 style="margin-left:0in"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt; mso-font-width:110%">Findings</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:.3pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:57.65pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 108%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:108%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-font-width:110%">The Commission upon hearing the Complainant's submissions and examining the evidence he presented finds that the complainant's appointment was not terminated but instead he was compulsorily retired upon attainment of age 60.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:57.65pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:8.75pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: .45pt;line-height:108%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:108%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:110%"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:57.65pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 108%"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:108%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-font-width:110%">Decision</span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 108%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:54.45pt;line-height:106%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 106%;mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:54.45pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;mso-font-width:105%">The<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>Commission hereby<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>dismisses the<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>complaint brought by<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>complainant against the Respondent for lack of merit.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><o:p> </o:p></p></span>