The former Crane Bank employees say they were unfairly and fraudulently dismissed by dfcu and now they are making a number of claims through a court suit No. 335 of 2020 among other things for dfcu Bank to be ordered to produce and permit the applicants and their advocates inspect and make copies key employment and transactional documents.
The documents being demanded for perusal are the Purchase of Assets and Assumption of Liabilities Agreement between the Bank of Uganda and dfcu Bank and lists of employees referred to in paras 5.4, 5.5(a)-e), 56, 5.7 and 5.8 of the Written Statement of Defence (WSD) and in the list of documents attached to the WSD, plus their respective contracts of employment with Crane Bank Ltd (CBL) and/or the respondent.
Others issues that the former employees of Crane Bank want addressed are written notices of resignation as referred to in para 5.4(b) of the WSD, all contracts of the “employees retained by the respondent, list(s) of former CBL employees that were laid off for reasons implied in para 5.6(a) of the WSD, all documents showing that the respondent promptly paid “appropriate termination packages.
The applicants contest many other issues that are contained in the WSD like demanding to prove that all documents showing that the respondent made an ex gratia payment of UGX 1,000,000/- to all laid-off employees as indicated in para 5.8(e) of WSD, and all documents notifying former CBL employees about the respondent’s grievance redress mechanism referred to in para 5.8(f) of the WSD and that costs of this application be paid by the respondent with a certificate for two counsels.
The ruling is set for April 28, 2021 at 11:00am
