The Labour Division of the High Court has issued an order of interim injunction against the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), stopping it from embarking on a mass transfer of some staff.
The court, presided over by Justice Laurenda Owusu, said the order remains in “force for a period of only 10 days after which the application may be repeated on notice to the other side.”
[contextly_sidebar id=”XB4DkwUxKj9zb1WE8BjDQ8GkBcALeLTR”]A private citizen, Joseph Nelson, filed a suit to challenge the decision of the Agency to transfer, demote and reassign some staff of the Agency.
Counsel for the plaintiff, Samson Lardy Anyenini Esq. in the suit prayed the court for the order to restrain the defendants; the Youth Employment Agency and the Attorney General from carrying out the decision against the staff.
According to him, the Agency did not follow due procedure in undertaking the exercise.
He said the Agency did not make arrangements for the transportation or accommodation for the affected staff despite issuing them a 7-day ultimatum to vacate their respective positions.
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YEA in June 2017 issued a notice of mass transfer of some of its staff, explaining that it was part of an “ongoing restructuring exercise to reposition the Agency for higher productivity.”
The acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Justine Kodua Frimpong, in justifying the decision told Citi News that it will go a long way to rid the agency of corruption.
“When we realized that there were several inefficiencies in the system, we tried to look at how best we can rectify all those challenges to make sure that the agency is in the position to be able to perform its duties efficiently. So everything that we are doing as management is to make sure that the agency performs its work efficiently,” he said.
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By: citifmonline.com/Ghana