Audio Attachment:Listen to Kwasi Pratt Jnr as he categorically denies the report that CJA is planning a demonstration. |
The Committee for Joint Action (CJA), has strongly refuted claims that the pressure group intends picketing against Vodafone�s decision to lay off some 2000 of its workers.
A leading member of the CJA, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, who categorically denied the report, pointed out that CJA only expressed alarm at recent happenings at Vodafone, a company in which the country owes 30%.
�There�s nothing like that. There will be no demonstration whatsoever. CJA has not announced a demonstration against Vodafone. It�s not true, �a charged Pratt said on Peace FM�s �Kokrokoo�.
Vodafone, it would be recalled, publicly declared that some 2000 employees would be laid off, as part of a retrenchment exercise, management intends carrying out.
This announcement prompted the Trades Union Congress of Ghana (TUC-Gh), to question the legality of the retrenchment exercise, saying it contravenes Ghana�s Labour Act.
According to Mr Pratt, the CJA is awaiting the audit report of the Committee; set up to review the sale of 70% shares of Ghana Telecom to Vodafone, and will make their position known after the report as submitted. He also called on Vodafone to adhere strictly to the country�s labour and investment laws.
�What we�ve said is that everything should be done, according to what the law says. Whatever they do should be legal,� he added.
Source: Kwadwo Asante/peacefmonline
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