GES vs Teacher Kwadwo: My Verdict

All employment like that of GES has its terms. The terms may be written in a single contract, several documents, custom and usage or inferred from the conduct of the employee and his employer. The terms of employment usually stipulate the procedure, notice and termination package in which the employer would pay to the employee upon termination of the employee’s employment.

2.Therefore, IT behooves on the employer to terminate the employee’s employment in line with the provisions of the employee’s terms of employment.

3. Consequently, termination of the employee’s employment is said to be unlawful, if the employer fails to terminate the employee’s employment in line with the provisions of the employee’s terms of employment.
4. What are the damages which will accrue to the employee for unlawful termination of his employment by the employer?
5. It’s my opinion that the outright dismissal of Teacher Kwadwo is an aberration of law, and industrial relations, shameful, counter-productive and a disgrace to the teaching profession.
6. In simple terms, the GES by their sack letter failed to point to any stated rule that was broken by Teacher Kwadwo under the Constitution and rules of Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNATS).
7. The reasons adduced by GES for sacking Teacher Kwadwo are patently faulty and unfounded, as same has NEVER formed the basis for summarily dismissing a teacher.
8. For instance, GES has never dismissed any Teacher for failing or refusing to write lesson notes. At best, a teacher charged for not preparing lesson notes, is given a FOURTEEN DAYS ultimatum to submit his or her lesson notes to the District or Municipal Office. Failing which might attract some punishment, certainly not dismissal.
9. Absenteeism though an offence under GES, it’s is not a dismiss-able offence. Offending teachers are usually transferred. Sometimes, the calculate the number of days and deduct same from the salary of the offending teacher.
10. The GES may have some covert right, power, means and will to do as they like, but summary dismissal of TK is undemocratic and anti-worker.
11. This is because Teacher Kwadwo have not gorge any of his pupils. He has not stolen, neither has he impregnated his CISO’s wife.
12. Sacking Teacher Kwadwo is not panacea to the challenges bewitching the teaching profession.
13. Rather than expending time and energy of Teacher Kwadwo, they should focus on how to make accessibility to both TIER 2 and MUTUAL Funds possible for the teacher while alive.
14. What should matter to GES is the bad conditions of classrooms they deploy teachers to and teach.
15. The GES must avert its attention to difficult working conditions of their employees such as a. Teacher efficacy, systematic challenges, poorly designed professional development plan, and Teacher professionalism.
16. The intimidation and the ‘me baha akye’ syndrome are the reason why GES is stagnating.
17. Why must a Director of education involved in pension fraud be the one authorizing the dismissal of another for not writing lesson note?
18. Sadly, GNAT and NAGRAT, bodies supposed to be fighting for the welfare of the common Teacher are busy chasing Rastafarians from attending public schools.
19. I dare say GNAT/NAGRAT are playing games with Teacher’s welfare.

By Charles McCarthy

@TheHawkNewspaper

Source: GhanaPlus.com