Our lawyers represent clients in a wide range of employment disputes and understand the legal, business and procedural developments in Ghana.
Through innovative dispute resolution strategies and effective case management, we aim to identify and execute the most advantageous business-oriented solutions, either by pursuing or defending litigation or arbitration proceedings, or through alternative methods, such as mediation and negotiation.
Experience has included advising:
- And successfully resisting a claim by 580 former employees of Gold Fields Ghana Limited for wrongful termination and challenging the right of the Ghana Mineworkers Union to negotiate and conclude a redundancy agreement on behalf of its members.
- A multi-national company in litigation brought against it and the Attorney-General by the Ghana Mine Workers Union, over the company’s decision to engage in contract mining resulting in the retrenchment of approximately 2,300 employees.
- A multinational pharmaceutical company in on-going labor related ligation.
- A multinational mining company in a number of ongoing labor related ligation matters.
- A multinational mining company in a suit brought against it by a former employee who breached the company’s policy on privacy and confidentiality.
- A manufacturing company in a dispute to enforce a restrictive covenant contained in the employment contract of an expatriate employee.
- The Ghanaian subsidiaries of US data processing, process outsourcing and telecommunications companies in disputes before the National Labour Commission and successfully negotiating settlements on their behalf.