{"id":383972,"date":"2017-12-17T07:43:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T07:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=383972"},"modified":"2017-12-17T07:43:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T07:43:03","slug":"mark-arthurs-case-against-ghana-intl-bank-plc-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/mark-arthurs-case-against-ghana-intl-bank-plc-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Arthur’s case against Ghana Intl. Bank PLC dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Employment Tribunal in the UK has unanimously dismissed the case involving a Ghanaian employee, Mark Arthur, and the Ghana International Bank PLC.<\/p>\n
The tribunal, presided over by Employment Judge Glennie, dismissed the two complaints of automatic unfair dismissal and failure to pay holiday pay on withdrawal against the bank.<\/p>\n
Among the reasons cited by the tribunal was the fact that one of evidence given by the complainant, which was the transaction involving the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu, could not be further interrogated as he is not a party to the case, and the tribunal has not heard any evidence from him.<\/p>\n
“The Tribunal observes that there is at the centre of this case a transaction involving an account holder with the Respondent, namely the King of the Ashanti people, his Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, to whom we will refer as \u201cthe King\u201d. The King is not a party to this case and the Tribunal has not heard any evidence from him. The Tribunal has not been called upon to reach any judgment about the significance of any actions on the King\u2019s part and we have not done so,” the judgement read.<\/p>\n
The case generated a lot of buzz in Ghana after the name of Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II popped up during the trial.<\/p>\n
Click here to read the full judgment of the tribunal.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n