The National Labour Commission (NLC), on Tuesday filed a motion in court to have workers of the Judicial Service (JUSSAG) call off their strike.
The Association had defied an order from NLC to suspend the strike, after a directive by the commission for them to go back to the negotiation table was unheeded to.
JUSSAG announced a strike last week over government’s failure to approve their consolidated salaries and allowances despite an agreement to that effect.
The new Executive Secretary of the NLC, Charles Adongo Bawa Duah noted in an interview with Accra-based Citi FM that the writ was filed on Tuesday morning, adding that hearing will commence on May 31, 2016.
He said the NLC is bent on employing legal means to ensuring that JUSAG returns to post as their strike remains illegal.
“…they [JUSSAG] did not meet the requirement of law which required them to have notified the National Labour Commission seven days to the strike action. We also noted that the parties were still at the negotiation table and as the law provides, it is not legally right for parties who are negotiating to embark on a strike.”
“Consequently, we directed the parties to go back to the negotiation table and report on June 8, to the National Labour Commission. The next day we heard that JUSSAG had embarked on strike. On the provisions of the law under which the commission operates, we have to apply to a court to enforce the directive that we have made. So we went to court this morning [Tuesday], to file a motion to have our directive enforced to compel JUSSAG workers to return to work.”