[2022]DLNLC15043 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">PRUDENTIAL BANK LIMITED<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">INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS’ UNION (ICU)<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/01/V.22/2022/8 15<sup>TH</sup> DECEMBER 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 A. 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">RULING<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;mso-font-width:110%">Brief<span style="letter-spacing:.9pt"> </span>facts<span style="letter-spacing:1.1pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:.6pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:.25pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">case</span></span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-font-width:105%">This action commenced when on 19<sup>th</sup> August,<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>2022,<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Prudential Bank Ghana Limited, the<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>Complainant<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>Bank,<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>lodged a<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>complaint at<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>National<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>Labour<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Commission,<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>inviting its intervention to facilitate a resolution of a stalemate in unionisation between the Complainant Bank and the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union, the<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>Respondent Union.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-font-width:115%">Complainant's<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">case</span></span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:105%">The<span style="letter-spacing:.5pt"> </span>Complainant<span style="letter-spacing: .55pt"> </span>Bank<span style="letter-spacing:.65pt"> </span>submitted<span style="letter-spacing:1.1pt"> </span>as<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>follows<span style="letter-spacing:.85pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">that:</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:57.2pt;text-indent:-17.8pt; line-height:115%;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo9;tab-stops:57.7pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span 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"; mso-font-width:114%">1.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:105%">In February, 2022 the Chief Labour Officer (CLO) issued two (2) Collective Bargaining Certificates (CBC) to<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>ICU<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>represent Senior Management and Junior Staff of the Bank. The Bank did not have any issue with the class of workers covered under the junior staff but raised issues regarding the senior management personnel covered by CBC, pursuant<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Section<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>79 of<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the Labour Act, 2003, (Act 651).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:56.35pt;text-indent:-17.55pt; line-height:115%;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo9;tab-stops:56.95pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span 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"; mso-font-width:114%">2.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:105%">After a<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>protracted exchange of<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>correspondence<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>between the<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>ICU<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Bank, the CLO directed the Bank and the ICU to meet and discuss the issues. The parties accordingly, began negotiations with the view to agree on the class of workers who may or<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>may not be members of the Professional and Managerial Staff Union (PMSU) of Respondent<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>Union.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:56.2pt;text-indent:-18.15pt; line-height:115%;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo9;tab-stops:56.4pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span 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"; mso-font-width:114%">3.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:105%">The parties made progress in the negotiations but were unable to reach an agreement on<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>whether or<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>not<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>branch<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>managers of<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>Bank could<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>be<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>members of the PMSU.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:55.55pt;line-height:115%; mso-list:l8 level1 lfo9;tab-stops:56.1pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span 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"; mso-font-width:114%">4.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:105%">Notwithstanding<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>this<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>disagreement, the<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>Union<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>went<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>ahead to<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>execute<span style="