The aggrieved worker of Tullow Ghana Limited, who is suing the company for GHC 10 million will accept an out of court settlement, her lawyer, Bright Akwetey has said.<\/p>\n
A 35-year old ex-worker of Tullow Ghana Limited, Pearl Margaret Ashley has dragged the company to the Human Rights Court over a work-related injury.<\/p>\n
She is demanding the said amount from her former employers because they provided her with a chair which has caused permanent injury to her back.<\/p>\n
In her original writ, she prayed the court to order Tullow Ghana Limited to put here on a medical insurance scheme and bear her medical expenses.<\/p>\n
According to Lawyer Bright Akwetey, \u201cif someone wants to settle, you settle and the courts are now encouraging alternate dispute settlement\u2026if someone will settle it will cause the person less\u201d.<\/p>\n
However, he said the person whose interest is primary to him was his client, and \u201ca young lady of that nature to be scared forever is not easy\u201d.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Citi Business News<\/strong> has learnt Tullow Ghana Limited represented by lawyer Kimathi Kuenyehia, has entered conditional appearance for the defendants.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Rabiu Alhassan\/citifmonline.com.Ghana<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The aggrieved worker of Tullow Ghana Limited, who is suing the company for GHC 10 million will accept an out of court settlement, her lawyer, Bright Akwetey has said. A 35-year old ex-worker of Tullow Ghana Limited, Pearl Margaret Ashley has dragged the company to the Human Rights Court over a work-related injury. She is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[22,4],"class_list":["post-36247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-medcirclesgh","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}