[2023]DLNLC17180 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:2.15pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00AF50">EMMANUEL AKYEAMPONG <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:2.15pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00AF50;letter-spacing:-.25pt">vs.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:2.1pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00AF50">PICCADILLY BISCUITS LIMITED<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:2.1pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00AF50"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;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; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: 0cm;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.1pt;text-align:justify;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;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Our<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Ref:<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> NLC/C-137/022/023/21H </span>15<sup>TH</sup> AUGUST, 2023<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:4.5pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">DIRECTOR, ADMIN/HR: <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; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: 0cm;"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="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;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">DR. BERNICE A. WELBECK (MRS)<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:4.5pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 1.5pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; 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; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: 0cm;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:1.05pt;text-align:center; tab-stops:474.9pt;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; letter-spacing:-.1pt">DECISION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:105%">On 19<span style="position:relative; top:-3.0pt;mso-text-raise:3.0pt">th<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span></span>July, 2023, the disputing parties appeared before the National Labour <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">Commission.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:110%">The Complainant was led<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>by the Industrial and Commercial<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>Workers Union<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>(ICU).<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>The Respondent was<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>represented<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>Managing<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Director<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Deputy<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Managing<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Director <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">respectively.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt; mso-font-width:105%">Commission</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:105%">The Commission recalled that at the last adjourned date, the Parties were directed to explore settlement of the dispute and report.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:105%">Both Parties reported that they have not been able to settle as they took different<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">positions.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:105%">Having<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt"> </span>failed<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>amicably<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>settle<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>dispute,<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>Commission<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>intervened<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>met<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">parties in caucus and in joint sessions<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>and after extensive deliberations with them the<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>Commission decided that the Respondent pays off the Complainant with four (4) months' salary, and this the parties agreed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:105%">The Commission<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt"> </span>directs<span style="letter-spacing:1.3pt"> </span>the Respondent<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>to pay the Complainant<span style="letter-spacing:1.7pt"> </span>four (4) month's<span style="letter-spacing: 1.2pt"> </span>salary to bring the dispute to a finality.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-font-width:110%">The<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>payment<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>shall<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>be<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>made<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">forthwith.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p><p> </p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p></span>