[2023]DLNLC17177 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:303.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-style: italic"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; 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:#00AF50">JAMES OBIRI-YEBOAH <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%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#00AF50;letter-spacing:-.25pt">vs.</span></b><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><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; 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:#00AF50">GOLDFIELDS GHANA 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%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; letter-spacing:-.2pt">[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: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;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:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Our<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Ref:<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> NLC/01/r.23/2023/90P </span>15TH NOVEMBER <span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">2023</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">FOR THE COMMISSION: <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="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;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">JUSTICE KWABENA ASUMAN-ADU (CHAIRMAN)<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </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="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:115%;tab-stops:474.9pt;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;letter-spacing:-.1pt">RULING PRELIMINARY LEGAL OBJECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#161618">INTRODUCTION<span style="letter-spacing:2.25pt"> </span>ANO<span style="letter-spacing:1.0pt"> </span>BACKGROUND<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#161618"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:49.65pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -18.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><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:#161618">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: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#161618">The complainant lodged a complaint with the National Labour Commission (NLC) on December 2, 2022 demanding compensation for unfair termination of his employment by Respondent .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:49.65pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;color:#161618"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:49.65pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -18.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><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:#161618">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: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#161618">The Respondent has raised a preliminary legal objection against the matter being lodged with the NLC.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#161618"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#161618">Respondent’s Grounds for the Preliminary Objection:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#161618"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:49.65pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -18.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><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:#161618">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: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#161618">The Respondent submits that the commission must dismiss the complainant’s action based on three(3) grounds namely;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:78.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;color:#161618"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:78.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -18.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:166.75pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><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:#161618;letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-font-width:105%">(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: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#161618">That the commission’s jurisdiction to adjudicate the complaint has been ousted by cause of action estoppel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:78.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -18.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:166.75pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><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:#161618;letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-font-width:105%">(b)<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: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#161618">That the complainant has been estopped by choice from pursuing his complaint before the NLC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:78.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -18.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:166.75pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><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:#161618;letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-font-width:105%">(c)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: