Redundant Employees Drag Defunct Security Coy ToLabour Commission

 About 170 redundant employees of the Eagle Guard Services Limited, a security firm headquartered in Accra have dragged their employer, per its Managing Director, one Mr. Kyeremateng to the National Labour Commission (NLC).

The complainants, comprising security guards and drivers attached to all 26 branches of the First Allied Savings and Loans Company in the country, want the National Labour Commission to intervene and ensure their salary arrears and compensation due them are paid in the name of fairness and natural justice without any further delay.

The petitioners claimed they were employed by Eagle Guard Services to provide services for the First Allied Savings and Loans Company and that most of them served for periods ranging between two years and 15 years as security men and drivers.

They argued that following the liquidation of the First Allied  Savings and Loan Company and the subsequent withdrawal of its licence to operate as such, Eagle Guard Services became moribund hence the security  firm’s employees also became redundant.

Messrs.’ Jacob Otchere, Benjamin Appiah, Daniel Owusu, GodfredQuaye and Simon Adusei, constituting the leadership of the group, in a signed petition, said salaries are in arrears of 12 months, yet the employer has made no efforts to settle us.

They, therefore, hope the NLC would intervene and ensure the payment of the salary arrears and compensation to help ameliorate their plight, in the face of numerous family commitments under the present economic hardships.

In July 2020, the employees lodged a formal complaint via a petition to the National Labour Commission.

As a result, the Managing Director of Eagle Guard Services Limited’s attention was drawn to the complaints in August 2020 to react to them within the stipulated 14 working days to enable the NLC take the necessary action.

But at the time of filing this report, the MD, who has duly been served with a reminder and a final reminder on August 31, 2020 and September 17, 2020 respectively, has not responded to the query.

The position and failure of Eagle Guard Services Limited to react to the complaints come in the face of a reminder by Mr. Eric OmaneYeboah, Head of the Regional Secretariat of the NLC, that on the grounds of Regulation 7 (2) of the Labour Commission 2006 (Legislative Instrument 1822), the Commission would proceed to determine the case if the MD failed to respond to the query raised by the aggrieved employees of the currently defunct company.

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