KENNEDY OHENE DARKO AND JOSEPH ENTSIE vs. CEDAR INTEGRATED SECUIRTY LIMITED [2023]DLNLC17009

Date	2023-11-05
Suit No.
Citation No.	[2023]DLNLC17009

JUSTICE KWABENA ASUMAN-ADU (RTD.) (CHAIRMAN)

[2023]DLNLC17009
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >&nbsp;&nbsp;KENNEDY OHENE DARKO AND JOSEPH
ENTSIE<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>CEDAR
INTEGRATED SECUIRTY LIMITED<o:p></o:p>[NLC]<o:p></o: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; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 12.4pt;">

Our Ref:
NLC/WRC-268/020/023/70C&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;5TH&nbsp;NOVEMBER&nbsp;
2023<o:p></o:p>

</div>FOR THE COMMISSION: <o:p></o: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;">

JUSTICE KWABENA ASUMAN-ADU
(RTD.)&nbsp; (CHAIRMAN)<o:p></o:p>

</div>&nbsp;<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; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 12.4pt;">

RULING<o:p></o:p>

</div>&nbsp;A.<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-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SUMMARY OF FACTS<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;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-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Complainants (Kennedy Ohene Darko and Joseph Entsie) by their
engagement letters dated 21 August 2015 1 December 2017 respectively
were employed as Security Guards
by (Quemic Ghana Ltd)
a private Security
Company in Ghana.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;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-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; By a dismissal letter dated 1 November 2018 issued by the Respondent
(Cedar Integrated Security) and received by the Complainants and signed for on
the 17 March 2020 the Respondent summarily dismissed the Complainants for breach
of the Company's disciplinary code.
(See Exhibit 4-Disciplinary Code at Article 4)<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;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-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Complainants claim they were called sometime in February 2020 and
were informed that there was a fence cut and fuel theft from one
truck, a night before they handed over to the day shift. The Complainants also claim that the Respondent breached
sections 12 and 13 of the Labour
Act (Act 651), and that their dismissal was unfair and unlawful since they were not given any hearing
prior to their dismissal.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;