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The National Labor Commission (NLC) has ordered the striking workers of Ghana Community Network Service Limited (GCNet) to cancel their strike with immediate effect.
According to the Commission, the workers’ strike is a violation of the Labor Law and must therefore be canceled.
In addition, the Commission directive signed by Dr. Bernice Welbeck, Director of Administration, ordered the workers to appear before it on Wednesday, October 14, 2020 to hear their concerns.
The NLC directive, in a letter addressed jointly to the workers and the management and, dated Friday, October 9, 2020, follows a complaint filed by the GCNet management to protest the action of the 50 remaining workers who left their tools in solidarity with around 100 workers who have been affected by the company’s ongoing layoffs.
Differences in the procedures for the payment of severance packages led the management and the Staff Welfare Association to arbitration at the NLC, in which the arbitration award favored the association.
But management is challenging the award in court on the conviction that the three-member panel ignored its presentation on the inability of the association, which is not a registered union body and does not have a bargaining certificate to represent workers.
While the laid-off workers continue to campaign for the payment of their severance package, those who remain on the job went on strike in solidarity with their colleagues sent home.
But the Labor Commission considers the actions of the workers inappropriate, which has affected operations in various dependencies such as the General Registry Department.
The company’s management, which has indicated its intention to pay for the severance packages, but on a legitimate basis, declared the layoff after the government abolished its trade facilitation services as of May 1, 2020.
