The National Labour Commission (NLC) and the Ghana National Teachers Association University Teachers (UTAG) have been issued a one-week ultimatum to settle their ongoing impasse out of court.
This was after the NLC dragged UTAG before a court demanding that the association be ordered to call off its strike action, which has been ongoing for over three weeks.
On Thursday, January 3, 2022, Justice Frank Rockson Aboadwe, a presiding judge of the Labour Court 1 Division of the Accra High Court, gave the two parties up to Thursday, January 10, 2022, to report back on the progress of the out-of-court settlement.
UTAG, on January 10, 2022, declared a nationwide strike which has seen a halt in academic activities across various public universities in the country.
The NLC ran to the court after UTAG defied its orders to call off the strike.
According to a Citi News report sighted by GhanaWeb, the presiding judge on Thursday called the parties into his chambers for an in-camera discussion.
A legal representative of UTAG, Kwasi Keli-Delataa, later informed journalists that the court had resolved to give the NLC permission to move its motions if a consensus is not reached by the one-week deadline.
Source: ghanaweb
