About 90 percent of workers at a plastics company in Accra, Top Industries, have been forced by the management of the company to write their resignation letters or forfeit their redundancy entitlements.
This was revealed when the leadership of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), visited the company to meet with the workers.
According to the workers, the fear of losing their redundancy package, as had been threatened by management, had led them to write their resignation letters.
A few workers who spoke Citi News’ correspondent Elvis Washington on condition of anonymity expressed their displeasure at their treatment by the management as they feel they deserve better for their service to the company.
The acting General Secretary in charge of operations, Morgan Ayawuni, told Citi News that the situation was unacceptable as the company had no right to force the workers to write resignation letters.
[contextly_sidebar id=”y3Z75VgCIpSRSl5kyyfTPNM2AOBsWGGw”] He confirmed that the workers had “submitted their own resignation letters not based on their own conviction that they want to resign, but for fear that they might be victimized.”
He added that ICU had asked them to “hold on while the national unions intervene on their behalf.”
Mr. Ayawuni assured the workers that they were going to “ensure that the right thing is done in accordance with the labour act.”
The ICU has been very vocal on the treatment of workers in the country in recent times and in June complained about the rate of public sector lay-offs .
By: Edwin Kwakofi/citifmonline.com/Ghana