GCB throws out ex-UT, Capital Bank staff for failing English, Mathematics in SSSCE, WASSCE

The Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) has sacked some former employees of now defunct UT and Capital Banks who were absorbed into the bank following their collapse by  the Bank of Ghana for failing Mathematics and English from the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSSCE) and the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

GCB terminated the contracts of the workers who are numbered about 57 for failing to possess pass marks in the two core subjects.

In a report by Class Business, Spokesperson for the aggrieved ex-workers, Raymond Addae Danquah said the group are threatening to go through all means to be reinstated adding that the treatment by GCB is inhumane.

He said: “As we speak now, we have about 57 people who have been laid off and there’s more to come from what we hear and for me it is rather unfortunate that this should happen to this our colleagues of ours.

“The fact that somebody had D or E in one of those core subjects and you use that as a basic to terminate the person’s appointment, this is inhumane and it is about time GCB rehire these people before we go further, because, this matter we are not letting it go, we are taking it to the extreme.

“If they are not rehired, we will take it to the extreme to make sure the right thing is done. The people that were sacked, some of them have done their master’s degree.

“Are you saying the basics of entering GCB is WASSCE...I have studied the collective bargaining agreement between GCB and the [sacked workers] and there are certain clauses which was even stated when they were filling the forms and which certificate they should provide and SSSCE or WASSCE was not part of it.”