The Public Utilities Workers Union (PUWU) has sued the major institutions involved in the privatization of the Electricity Company of Ghana.
PUWU's suit against the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), the Attorney-General and the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) is to demand all workers are paid a severance package before the state power distributor is privatised.
PUWU in a writ filed at the Accra High Court on October 3, 2017, argued the decision to hand over the nation’s power distributor to a concessionaire will affect its members, for which reason a package needed to be paid.
In tandem with the privatization agreement, ECG workers will be transferred to the concessionaire referred as 'grandfather' with the same entitlement as pertained previously in the ECG engagement agreement.
This PUWU suggest its members need to be given a redundancy package because of the high possibility of a cutback exercise, which might affect them hence their decision to resort to the court.
Per the writ, PUWU is asking the court to declare that the government's approach to transfering ECG workers to the concessionaire known as grandfathering constitutes a redundancy, contemplated by the Labour Act.
It is also demanding an order directing the three defendants to comply with the provisions of Act 651, which details redundancy processes that have to be followed.
The Union is seeking a perpetual injunction to restrain the defendants, their assigns and privies from continuing with the compact between the government and MiDA over the sale of ECG.
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