GCB has terminated the contracts of 56 former-staff of the defunct UT and Capital Banks for not possessing the minimum qualification required to work with the bank.
The termination of their contracts was effected after an audit of employees of the defunct banks queried the minimum qualification of about 160 staff.
The affected staff have since been issued with “termination of appointment” letters signed by the H.R, Kojo Essel. The letter said the affected employees will be paid an equivalent of one month’s basic salary.
It directed such employees to hand over any company property that may be in their possession.
Although the letter did not state the reasons for which the appointments were terminated , reports say the affected persons, even though produced university degrees in applying for their jobs, did not pass Mathematics and English, and were given time enough to submit official school results to justify their employment, in keeping with GCB Bank employment policy.
But Spokesperson for the former-UT and Capital Banks workers, Raymond Danquah, described the move by the bank as inhumane.
“For me, it is rather unfortunate that this should happen to these colleagues of ours. The fact that somebody had D or E in one of those core subjects and you use that as a basis to terminate the persons appointment, this is inhumane and it is about time GCB reinstates these people.”
“How about those who have gone further to do their masters? Are we saying the point of entry into GCB is SSCE?” he quipped in an interview on Accra-based Citi FM.
